It should be noted about Openrouter that you aren't allowed to expose the access to end users, it has to be for internal usage only, which can be fatal as they have made waves of account banning lately (without warnings).
Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
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Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
#32People may feel differently about the fee that OpenRouter takes, but I think the service they provide is worth the extra cost. Having access to dozens of models through a single API key, tracking cost of each request, being able to run the same request on different models and comparing their results next to each other, separating usages through different API keys, adding your own presets, setting your routing rules..…
Expect you don't have the right to do what you want with the API Key (see waves of ban lately, many SaaS services have closed because of it).
Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
#33I don't think there's currently better value than Github's $40 plan which gives you access to GPT5 & Claude variants. It's pay per request so not ideal for back-and-forth but great for building complex features on the cheap compared to paying per token. Because GH is accessing the API behind the scenes, you should face less degradation when using Sonnet/Opus models compared to a Claude subscription. Keep a ChatGPT $2…
Is your source code worth only $40 for them to train their models on?
https://www.techradar.com/pro/bad-news-skeptics-github-says-...
Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
#34People may feel differently about the fee that OpenRouter takes, but I think the service they provide is worth the extra cost. Having access to dozens of models through a single API key, tracking cost of each request, being able to run the same request on different models and comparing their results next to each other, separating usages through different API keys, adding your own presets, setting your routing rules..…
Expect you don't have the right to do what you want with the API Key (see waves of ban lately, many SaaS services have closed because of it).
Unless you provide some more details, at least outline what "do what you want" was in your case, this seems like just straight up FUD.
Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
#35I also dropped Claude Code Max.
I switched to OpenCode Zen + GitHub Copilot. For some reason, Claude Code burns through my quota really quickly.
Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
#36I don't think there's currently better value than Github's $40 plan which gives you access to GPT5 & Claude variants. It's pay per request so not ideal for back-and-forth but great for building complex features on the cheap compared to paying per token. Because GH is accessing the API behind the scenes, you should face less degradation when using Sonnet/Opus models compared to a Claude subscription. Keep a ChatGPT $2…
Is your source code worth only $40 for them to train their models on? https://www.techradar.com/pro/bad-news-skeptics-github-says-...
Considering how much data they already have from everything that's on GitHub, I doubt you would make a dent boycotting their AI product.
Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
#37When I use the tool ccusage it says I use $600 of usage a month for my $100. I don’t know that this is a good value proposition for me if I want to stay with the same model, half the reason I use Claude code, personally.
I ran this just now and for a small web-app I built I used over $50 in a single day. This was using superpowers plugin and almost exclusively coordinating through Opus. Could I get by with 100$ a month without the subscription? Maybe, but I pay for the convenience of just being able to throw Opus with lavish plugins at it (with 5h limits that are, in my opinion, pretty reasonable). I don't really WANT to have to think about when Haiku or Sonnet are enough.
If anything I would consider switching to OpenAI subscription (if I didn't despise them even more than Anthropic as a company), but converting to API use seems completely infeasible to me. I'd have to severely cut back on my use for not much benefit, other than having maybe an agent thats a little less jank than CC.
Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
#38I also dropped Claude Code Max. I switched to OpenCode Zen + GitHub Copilot. For some reason, Claude Code burns through my quota really quickly. https://opencode.ai/zen
How does Claude Code compare to OpenCode Zen? I’m on the $20/month Claude plan, and was considering OpenCode Zen as well.
Due to the quota changes, I actually find myself using Claude less and less
Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
#39I don't think there's currently better value than Github's $40 plan which gives you access to GPT5 & Claude variants. It's pay per request so not ideal for back-and-forth but great for building complex features on the cheap compared to paying per token. Because GH is accessing the API behind the scenes, you should face less degradation when using Sonnet/Opus models compared to a Claude subscription. Keep a ChatGPT $2…
I'm still paying the 10$ GH copilot but I don't use it because : - context is aggressively trimmed compared to CC obviously for cost saving reasons, so the performance is worse - the request pricing model forces me to adjust how I work Just these alone are not worth saving the 60$/month for me. I like the VSCode integration and the MCP/LSP usage surprised me sometimes over the dumb grep from CC. Ironically VSCode is…
Disagree entirely.
GHCP at least is transparent about the pricing: hit enter on a prompt= one request. CC/Codex use some opaque quota scheme, where you never really know if a request will be 1,2,10% of your hourly max, let alone weekly max.
I've never seen much difference with context ostensibly being shorter in GHCP, all of the models (in any provider) lose the thread well before their window is full, and it seems that aggressive autocompaction is a pretty standard way to help with that, and CC/Codex do it frequently.
Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
#40I also dropped Claude Code Max. I switched to OpenCode Zen + GitHub Copilot. For some reason, Claude Code burns through my quota really quickly. https://opencode.ai/zen
How does Claude Code compare to OpenCode Zen? I’m on the $20/month Claude plan, and was considering OpenCode Zen as well. Due to the quota changes, I actually find myself using Claude less and less
I haven't tried $20 claude code recently, but I've used OpenCode Zen primarily so I can play with opensource/chinese models which are very inexpensive. I'd spend $0.50-$1.00 on a single claude opus 4.6 plan mode run, then have a chinese model execute the plan for like $0.10-$0.15 total. I'd keep context short, constantly start new threads, and get laser focused markdown plans and knowledgebase to be token efficient.
If I just let opencode zen run claude opus to plan and execute, I'd spend $20 in like 5 minutes lol