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Claude March 2026 usage promotion
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Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#42Long ago in the ancient days of punchcards and IBM mainframes, you’d write your programs during the day, then submit them to run overnight and pick up your results in the morning. It would be funny and sort of romantic if time-based LLM pricing returned us to that: write your specs all day, run agents on them overnight, check out the results in the morning.
I find that incredibly optimistic.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
The psychology is to hook you on the usage. A lot of people see a little movement in the usage meter and get cold feet about heavy usage. The prior $70 credit deal and now this offering are to try to get people to dive in, and hopefully retain that usage pattern afterwards.
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.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#44I 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 suspect it’s much more about understanding user behavior, i.e: given more allowance off-peak, do users change when they use Claude? And from there, that will inform how plans are designed long term. If they discover that offering higher off-peak limits meaningfully changes how/when users interact with the service, they can use discounted off-peak plans to flatten usage. I would be very surprised if this promotion had anything to do with encouraging people to upgrade.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#45Earlier 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.
/stats session shows you the remaining quota in Gemini CLI and when the quota resets, and they dropped the quota badly in the last few days.
Before that I would totally agree with you, it felt really endless
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has "current session" and "weekly". If you notice, "current session" is never more than five hours away from expiration.
Oh, you're right. I don't know why I've always misread "current session" as daily. Thanks for clearing that up. It'll help me schedule stuff in the future.
For Claude Code, you use up 12% of your weekly allotment every session, so 8 sessions per week.
If you are only using a session a day, you're wasting a session. :)
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#47Would 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).
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#48They are learning from Codex
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#49That is doubled usage between 5AM and 11PM for anyone playing along from Sydney/Melbourne.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#50Long ago in the ancient days of punchcards and IBM mainframes, you’d write your programs during the day, then submit them to run overnight and pick up your results in the morning. It would be funny and sort of romantic if time-based LLM pricing returned us to that: write your specs all day, run agents on them overnight, check out the results in the morning.
They have this. It’s called batch pricing and it’s 50% off.