Don't be too quick to write off cheap clamp meters, unless you've checked the thing first.
I have a cheap Mastech 2108A, icr what it cost, but was certainly less than 30USD.
The low dc range is 40A, with 10mA resolution.
Obviously I was curious about the accuracy, so I gave it some on the job testing.
I was helping out a fellow sparky who was commissioning a small fire alarm panel; he'd found the current draw was so small that putting his DMM in series on mA setting (Fluke 77 iirc) the panel just wouldn't power up.
The reason you need to do this is for fire regs, you have to measure the quiescent current and the full alarm current as part of the battery capacity formula.
So I used the Mastech, and we were looking at around 30mA quiescent, and 50mA with all the sounders running.
Since that's effectively in the noise as far as this meter goes, I was rather sceptical, and went for a rummage around in my van, and dug out a precision shunt I'd made.
Using this we measured the currents again... and found them the same, though with the shunt we got an order of magnitude better precision.
Nevertheless I was pretty surprised, and even impressed, with the performance of the cheap clamp meter.