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Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#151

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Isn't Co-Pilot tied to VsCode?

No, it's in notepad, Edge, all MS Office products, Azure, M365. But you also get to chose your model: MS, OpenAI, Anthropic.

Ah I see! I had it mixed-up with another LLM service starting with the same letter.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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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.

Gemini 3.1 pro under a Google AI pro subscription has just recently started imposing really small weekly limits. I went from it feeling unlimited to hitting a 4 day quota in 2 hours of use. Very odd. Wonder if too many people jumped on with the 3.1 pro release.

Same experience with the recent quota change on Google AI Pro. People have asked for yearly plans but given the vague and ever shifting limits it would be crazy to commit long-term.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#153

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).

You’re not using Claude Code?

TBF it’s not palatable to everyone. I found Claude Code hard to use, but willingly pay for Opus and Sonnet used with a different tool.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#154

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What I mean is that "it" - the advertised window during which the offer applies - is not 5am to 11pm as mentioned by the poster above.

The advertised window is peak time (6h per day). The doubled usage applies off-peak (18h per day).

Ah! Yes, I got tripped up by the negation. Cheers

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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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).

ccusage on my $200 subscription shows that I'd spend ~$600 per day if I used PAYGO model.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#156

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).

If $20 a month for a full on powerhouse of a model is hard for you to justify, maybe get a new job?

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

#157

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).

This use to be the case, but in the last 36 hrs or so, copilot silently kneecapped Claude models and I've been getting rate limited on like every 3rd request. Not only does the call fail mid way, they still charge me for the request.
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