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Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by Aboutplants »

martinald wrote: post #110

Very interesting. As I wrote in this article https://martinalderson.com/posts/is-the-ai-compute-crunch-he... a couple of weeks ago: "One thing I really suspect we'll see a lot more of is much more generous rate limits at 'off peak' times - likely to be early morning UTC - as there is no doubt a lot of "idle" compute sitting there" I strongly suspect this will end up in the opposite happening - where peak tokens are f…

“I strongly suspect this will end up in the opposite happening - where peak tokens are far more "expensive" (whether that be thru usage limits of API costs) than off-peak.”

This only happens once/if competition eases up. Until then, it’s a race to the bottom

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by richardw »

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #14

I just know there has to be some psychology in play with these promos. The promo during December got me to upgrade to the $100 plan, and I know I'm not the only one.

I found that when I have “infinite” tokens my behaviour changed. 3-5 tabs so I’m not waiting, free side quests, huge review skills over whole codebase, skills that wrap 10 other skills. It’s like going from expensive data to uncapped.

I think these token doubles are there to kick you into a abundance mindset (for want of a better term) so going back feels painful. Stop counting tokens, focus on your project and the cost of your own time.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by Aboutplants »

Pricing will soon be structured around energy costs and On/off peak power rates, I’m actually surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. Even with Behind the Meter Generation, you’re not completely mitigated from peak (daily) power prices. Being able to shift at least some demand around will help from a pure energy costs perspective.

Most of these Behind the Meter generation projects will be Gas Generation. Guess what happens during a cold snap like the one we experienced in the Northeast US a few weeks ago? Natural gas prices jumped 10X in the daily market. You say that they are hedged? Hedges do not matter during Operational Flow Order(OFO)/Force Majeur/Curtailment pipeline events and they are exposed to the daily market. (I do this for a living)

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by [deleted] »

salomonk_mur wrote: post #59
daemonologist wrote: post #47

Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

Hard to justify? 20/month for like 5x output is a great deal (be it Claude or Codex or whatever), even if it lasts only 2-3 hours per day.

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Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by Fabricio20 »

llm_nerd wrote: post #43
operatingthetan wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anthropic's models are obviously superior at coding right now but using 2-3 $20 accounts between different providers is still a very effective way to get good value. Gemini CLI and Codex seem to be at least 2x more permissive on usage. The models are good enough. Plus we are technologists, we want to try out different stuff and compare.

That's precisely what I do, with subscriptions to all of them. Gemini almost seems unlimited...like I never hit limits with it. Don't even know how to check my usage for the subscription plans on that. But increasingly I'm using Claude for basically all real coding. I ask Gemini and Codex questions, but I'm honestly in awe at Opus' ridiculous capabilities.

I tried gemini the other day and after asking it 3 things I hit a limit. That's after gemini cli crashed my terminal twice for some reason (just opening it `gemini` caused the freeze -> crash). I must be doing something wrong because using gemini flash over openrouter I barely spend credits, yet my subscription ran out almost instantly.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by rednafi »

szatkus wrote: post #85
mavilia wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I canceled my plan today and wrote my reason as: now that I have a job again I don’t have the time or needs for the pro plan. If there was a $5 a month option, I would gladly take it to make use of Opus for my rare side ideas.

Pay as you go. I never spent more than $10/month working on my side project (usually a few evenings per month).

I have the enterprise plan and get to use it for both work and some personal stuff.

I mainly use it for side projects and doing research for writing stuff on my blog.

I use Opus 4.6 with claude code 1M context and consistently use up 150-200$ worth of token per day. I wonder how do you manage to do anything with a 10$/mo program.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by rednafi »

richardw wrote: post #113
JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #14

I just know there has to be some psychology in play with these promos. The promo during December got me to upgrade to the $100 plan, and I know I'm not the only one.

I found that when I have “infinite” tokens my behaviour changed. 3-5 tabs so I’m not waiting, free side quests, huge review skills over whole codebase, skills that wrap 10 other skills. It’s like going from expensive data to uncapped. I think these token doubles are there to kick you into a abundance mindset (for want of a better term) so going back feels painful. Stop counting tokens, focus on your project and the c…

I use the enterprise plan for work and often burn ~150$ worth of tokens per day. I have noticed exhibiting similar behaviors here.

When you say nearly unlimited token, do you mean the 100 or 200$ subscription?

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