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I did try Extra Usage and API credits with Claude and it chews through $5 in minutes. Unlike GPT, the subscription is a better deal. I definitely do not recommend API credits and such. It's more efficient to use Claude through some other provider like Antigravity, Cursor, and so on.
> * it chews through $5 in minutes* Whoa, if you're using it that much, you should definitely look at the $100 plan. Either that, or you'll have to use an older model or reduce thinking (which does really tank the quality of results unfortunately) or look at a local model. I don't think there's really many other options. For a while I did a $20 sub to both OpenAI and Claude and just switched back and forth. I was abl…
Free runs out in two, yes two uses on peak hours, on Claude Sonnet.
The basic paid has 5x the use, which hits the limit at 10 uses. The $100 plan is 5x of this, which is still a limit at 50 uses on Sonnet.
At one point, Cursor would give you the same usage limits as the $200 plan, but now the pricing has changed.
The reason I switch is because something always breaks with these AI providers, Anthropic being a common offender.