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Does the $20 subscription hold a similar bang for your buck as cursor? I’m curious about the tool but I wonder if it requires more significant investment to be

Does the $20 subscription hold a similar bang for your buck as cursor? I’m curious about the tool but I wonder if it requires more significant investment to be a daily driver.

time0ut 1y ago
Using claude code feels like pairing with another programmer. Cursor feels like a polished extension of the IDE. They are both good tools and easily worth $20/mo. I think Anthropic has a 7 day free trial going on. Worth trying it out.
- polishdude20 1y ago
  Do you use Claude code on the side and have you ide open to visualize the files and project structure and stuff? I've been using only cursor for now and I really like having it in the ide. Being able to see the diffs and accept/ reject them and navigate my codebase is really nice.
  - filoleg 1y ago
    Agreed. For those who don’t know btw, Claude Code has an official VS Code extensiob that does pretty much exactly that.
nico 1y ago
> Does the $20 subscription hold a similar bang for your buck as cursor? Not sure about cursor. But if you want to use Claude Code daily for more than 2-3hrs/day, the $20 plan will feel limiting In my experience, the $100 plan is pretty good, although you still run into the rate limits if you use it for a long time everyday (especially if you use Opus, which seems to run out in the first 30min of usage)
kookamamie 1y ago
No. If you want use Claude anything serious, you will need the 200/month subscription. I have tried them all and you will run out of Opus too quickly with the lesser ones on a daily basis.
- itsgrimetime 1y ago
  I have the opposite experience (although with sonnet) - I have to recklessly instruct Claude to make super verbose tool calls to even get close to chewing through enough tokens to use up limit before the 5 hour reset period or whatever it is. I don’t find enough performance increase w opus to justify it.
  - kookamamie 1y ago
    I ran out of Opus this week in 2-3 hour of use with the 100/month sub. It was not particularly heavy use, either.

Does the $20 subscription hold a similar bang for your buck as cursor? I’m curious about the tool but I wonder if it requires more significant investment to be a daily driver.

time0ut 1y ago

Using claude code feels like pairing with another programmer. Cursor feels like a polished extension of the IDE. They are both good tools and easily worth $20/mo. I think Anthropic has a 7 day free trial going on. Worth trying it out.

polishdude20 1y ago
Do you use Claude code on the side and have you ide open to visualize the files and project structure and stuff? I've been using only cursor for now and I really like having it in the ide. Being able to see the diffs and accept/ reject them and navigate my codebase is really nice.
- filoleg 1y ago
  Agreed. For those who don’t know btw, Claude Code has an official VS Code extensiob that does pretty much exactly that.

nico 1y ago

> Does the $20 subscription hold a similar bang for your buck as cursor? Not sure about cursor. But if you want to use Claude Code daily for more than 2-3hrs/day, the $20 plan will feel limiting In my experience, the $100 plan is pretty good, although you still run into the rate limits if you use it for a long time everyday (especially if you use Opus, which seems to run out in the first 30min of usage)

kookamamie 1y ago

No. If you want use Claude anything serious, you will need the 200/month subscription. I have tried them all and you will run out of Opus too quickly with the lesser ones on a daily basis.

itsgrimetime 1y ago
I have the opposite experience (although with sonnet) - I have to recklessly instruct Claude to make super verbose tool calls to even get close to chewing through enough tokens to use up limit before the 5 hour reset period or whatever it is. I don’t find enough performance increase w opus to justify it.
- kookamamie 1y ago
  I ran out of Opus this week in 2-3 hour of use with the 100/month sub. It was not particularly heavy use, either.