Anthropic Max 5× is $100 per seat per month. Premium team access runs $150 per seat. Those numbers don't shrink. jCodeMunch is a one-time payment that materially reduces variable AI usage spend — capex, not opex.
A Builder license costs less than a single month of Anthropic's basic Max plan. Pays back in literally days of normal use.
Studio covers 5 devs, one-time. Five seats of premium team plan @ $150/mo runs $9,000/yr. Studio doesn't replace plan spend — it caps how fast it grows.
Unlimited internal seats. No per-seat invoice surprise next quarter when the team grows.
Local ONNX embeddings. Indexes never leave the machine. No data egress to a third-party SaaS just to find a function definition.
Server only reads what you whitelist. Path validation, automatic secret redaction, rate limiting.
Apache-2.0 retrieval interface. Vendor-independent. Your investment in retrieval discipline outlives any single tool.
audit_agent_config surfaces exactly what tokens your team is paying for before they reach the model. Hard to budget what you can't measure.
"Roughly 5× more efficient context retrieval."
"Preserves your context budget for actual reasoning."
"Structural questions you simply can't ask Grep or Glob."
"The whole game is what you choose not to put in the prompt."