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    Perplexity Max - Computer used entire monthly budget in 1 task

    blackbriar75 March 2, 2026
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    I had computer create a task to scour a 280k python codebase for errors, and fix them. I had it do two passes. It spawned subagents, largely Sonnet 4.6. It ran for 40 minutes, is not complete yet, and used 15k credits. This is 50% more than what's included with the $200USD/month. I'm utterly astounded that I blew more than the entire month's Max subscription in one task in under an hour. What has everybody else's experience been? EDIT - task finally completed at 21k tokens, 1.2 hours runtime. Market cost at perplexity = over $400USD. EDIT2 - it has taken an additional 2000 credits to *merely attempt to push it's work product to Github.* For reference, thats 1/5th of your monthly $200USD subscription. It's still trying to do it - it's spawned subagents, split it into 100 commits, tried to use JSON payloads to push file content directly, wrote a python script etc. It's incredibly comical. I encourage you to look at the shared task yourself: [https://www.perplexity.ai/computer/tasks/i-want-you-to-clone-my-github-wa4o1cbmTIqHd3.oGJPZbA](https://www.perplexity.ai/computer/tasks/i-want-you-to-clone-my-github-wa4o1cbmTIqHd3.oGJPZbA) EDIT3 - It is still trying to push it's code changes to Github, and has now consumed 31k credits total, almost 10k credits on pushing to github alone. That's an entire $200USD/month Max subscription to *merely push work product to Github.*
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