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Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by F7F7F7 »

warp wrote: post #19
tkzed49 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll add on to this: I don't really use agent modes a lot. In an existing codebase, they waste a lot of my time for mixed results. Maybe Claude Code is so much better at this that it enables a different paradigm of AI editing—but I'd need easy, cheap access to try it.

You don't need a max subscription to use Claude Code. By default it uses your API credits, and I guess I'm not a heavy AI user yet (for my hobby projects), but I haven't spent more than $5/month on Claude Code the past few months.

I burned $30 in Claude Code in just under an hour. I was equally frustrated and impressed. So much so I ended up a $200 MAX subscriber.

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by ramoz »

tkzed49 wrote: post #14

The problem is that this is $100/mo with limits. At work I use Cursor, which is pretty good (especially tab completion), and at home I use Copilot in vscode insiders build, which is catching up to Cursor IMO. However, as long as Microsoft is offering copilot at (presumably subsidized) $10/mo, I'm not interested in paying 10x as much and still having limits. It would have to be 10x as useful, and I doubt that.

Doesn’t resonate with me because I’ve spent over $1,000 on Claude Code at this point and the return is worth it. The spend feels cheap compared to output.

In contrast - I’m not interested in using cheaper, less-than, services for my livelihood.

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

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Post by F7F7F7 »

ghuntley wrote: post #3

the new Claude code “max plan” would last me all of [1] 5mins… I don’t get why people are excited about this. High powered tools aren’t cheap and aren’t for the consumer… [1] https://www.youtube.com/live/khr-cIc7zjc?si=oI9Fj33JBeDlQEYG

Claude Max is less than a 1/2 percentage point of a Jr. Devs average salary. If you can't make that work then....

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

#34

Post by tkzed49 »

ramoz wrote: post #32
tkzed49 wrote: post #14

The problem is that this is $100/mo with limits. At work I use Cursor, which is pretty good (especially tab completion), and at home I use Copilot in vscode insiders build, which is catching up to Cursor IMO. However, as long as Microsoft is offering copilot at (presumably subsidized) $10/mo, I'm not interested in paying 10x as much and still having limits. It would have to be 10x as useful, and I doubt that.

Doesn’t resonate with me because I’ve spent over $1,000 on Claude Code at this point and the return is worth it. The spend feels cheap compared to output. In contrast - I’m not interested in using cheaper, less-than, services for my livelihood.

hey, I'm open to that possibility. Maybe I'll grab $5 in API credit and give it a shot (for 5 minutes or a week depending on who you ask)

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

#35

Post by [deleted] »

ramoz wrote: post #32
tkzed49 wrote: post #14

The problem is that this is $100/mo with limits. At work I use Cursor, which is pretty good (especially tab completion), and at home I use Copilot in vscode insiders build, which is catching up to Cursor IMO. However, as long as Microsoft is offering copilot at (presumably subsidized) $10/mo, I'm not interested in paying 10x as much and still having limits. It would have to be 10x as useful, and I doubt that.

Doesn’t resonate with me because I’ve spent over $1,000 on Claude Code at this point and the return is worth it. The spend feels cheap compared to output. In contrast - I’m not interested in using cheaper, less-than, services for my livelihood.

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Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

#36

Post by hombre_fatal »

F7F7F7 wrote: post #31
warp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need a max subscription to use Claude Code. By default it uses your API credits, and I guess I'm not a heavy AI user yet (for my hobby projects), but I haven't spent more than $5/month on Claude Code the past few months.

I burned $30 in Claude Code in just under an hour. I was equally frustrated and impressed. So much so I ended up a $200 MAX subscriber.

The money starts adding up fast as your context fills up since it's resending the whole accumulated context back through the api every time.

They're good about telling you how full your context is, and you can use /compact to shrink it down to the essentials.

But for those of us who aren't Mr. MoneyBags like you all, keeping an eye on context size is key to keeping costs low.

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

#37

Post by [deleted] »

tkzed49 wrote: post #14

The problem is that this is $100/mo with limits. At work I use Cursor, which is pretty good (especially tab completion), and at home I use Copilot in vscode insiders build, which is catching up to Cursor IMO. However, as long as Microsoft is offering copilot at (presumably subsidized) $10/mo, I'm not interested in paying 10x as much and still having limits. It would have to be 10x as useful, and I doubt that.

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Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

#38

Post by light_hue_1 »

This isn't flat pricing. It's exactly the same API credits but you prepay for the month and lose anything you don't use.

Whether it turns out to be cheaper depends on your usage.

I thought Claude Code was absurdly expensive and not at all more capable than something like chatgpt combined with copilot.

Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

#39

Post by dahcryn »

tkzed49 wrote: post #14

The problem is that this is $100/mo with limits. At work I use Cursor, which is pretty good (especially tab completion), and at home I use Copilot in vscode insiders build, which is catching up to Cursor IMO. However, as long as Microsoft is offering copilot at (presumably subsidized) $10/mo, I'm not interested in paying 10x as much and still having limits. It would have to be 10x as useful, and I doubt that.

Have I got bad news for you.... Microsoft announced imposing limits on "premium" models from next week. You get 300 "free" requests a month. If you use agent, you consume about 3-4 requests per action easily, I estimate to burn through 300 in about 3-5 working days.

Basically anything that isnt gpt4o is premium, and I find gpt4o near useless compared to Claude and Gemini in copilot.

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