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I wanted to try Claude code but it's 200$ per month which is INR17000 per month. This was expensive even when I had a job. Now it feels like all this power is a

• yoyohello13 1y ago
  Yeah, $200/month makes sense if you're a contractor passing the cost to your client, but if you're a hobbyist or employee it's a massive chunk of money.
• steipete 1y ago
  You can get pretty far with much less. See https://steipete.me/posts/2025/stop-overthinking-ai-subscriptions/ https://steipete.me/posts/2025/stop-overthinking-ai-subscrip...
• falcor84 1y ago
  You can try it with a regular dev account and it charges you per token. It's still costly, e.g. around $20 for an active hour of experimentation, but you can just run `/cost` at any point to see how much you've paid so far, and decide when to stop if it's not worth your money.
• zackify 1y ago
  the $100/mo plan is more than enough i never get fully limited
• tough 1y ago
  You can use openai's codex, or any of the claude code clone's available on github. At the end of the day all do the same. a cli tool that can call tools and use them as needed. https://github.com/openai/codex https://github.com/openai/codex http://aider.ai/ http://aider.ai/
• quinncom 1y ago
  Zed.dev’s agent is comparable and includes 50 prompts per month free.
• arsenico 1y ago
  You can actually use it with Claude Pro, which is 20/month