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You need Claude Pro or Max. The website subscription also allows you to use the command line tool—the rate limits are shared—and the command line tool includes
by Filligree 1y ago
You need Claude Pro or Max. The website subscription also allows you to use the command line tool—the rate limits are shared—and the command line tool includes IDE integration, at least for VSCode.
Claude Code is currently best-in-class, so no point in starting elsewhere, but you do need to read the documentation.
- wahnfrieden 1y agoCorrect. Claude Code Max with Opus. Don’t even bother with Sonnet.
- kelnos 1y agoI wouldn't be too prescriptive. I have Pro, and it's fine. I'm not an incredibly heavy user (yet?); I've hit the rate limits a couple times, but not to the point where I'm motivated to spend more. I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard from people that Opus can be slow when using it for coding tasks. I've only been using Sonnet, and it's performed well enough for my purposes.
- Filligree 1y agoSonnet works fine in many cases. Opus is smarter, and custom 'agents' can be set to use either. I prefer configuring it to use Sonnet for things that don't require much reasoning/intelligence, with Opus as the coordinator.
- wahnfrieden 1y agoOpus is slow, so sessions should be used in parallel, likely across work trees. You shouldn't sit and wait on an Opus agent.
- 47282847 1y ago> You need Claude Pro or Max. Actually, to try it out, prepaid token billing is fine. You are not required to have a subscription for claude code cli. Even just $5 gave me enough breathing room to get a feeling for its potential, personally. I do not touch code often these days so I was relieved not to have to subscribe and cancel again just to play around a little and have it write some basic scripts for me.