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Ask HN: How long before agentic IDEs/CLIs cut you off from pro-grade models?
Many agentic IDEs and CLIs provide free or paid access to pro-grade models such as Claude Sonnet/Opus, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT o3.
Vendors typically describe limits using tokens, credits, or requests, but that doesn’t always match the actual coding hours before hitting limits. I'd love to hear your real-world experiences.
Reply using this format:
[Tool Name] [Tier] [Usage Type] – [usage per day/week/month]
Usage Types:
[a] Heavy: Intensive coding, vibe coding, major refactors.
[b] Medium: Regular coding, debugging, smaller refactors.
[c] Low: Occasional quick fixes, snippets, reviews.
If you haven't hit limits yet, put NL (no limit).
- codeclimber 1y agoGemini CLI (free tier) [a] - less than 1 h/day Claude Code (pro) [a] - 2 h/day Cursor (pro) [b] - 2 weeks/month
- incomingpain 1y agoGemini cli free tier, i can get about 2 million input tokens in about an hour before it dumps me down to flash. Then i switch to local devstral for the rest of the day and naturally no limits in that sense.
- codeclimber 1y agoCould you share the hardware specs you use to run Devstral?
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