> 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 jus

> 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.