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I am always a hit confused when people talk about these charges... are you not using the subscriptions with the flat rates? I am on the $100 a month plan, and a

I am always a hit confused when people talk about these charges... are you not using the subscriptions with the flat rates? I am on the $100 a month plan, and am constantly using clause code and never coming close to my limits. Maybe I am just not using it at the levels of some people...

Gobd 8mo ago
I have noticed the same with the $100/mo plan, I hit the limt only once with heavy usage. Then when I use my employer's AWS Bedrock it's not uncommon for my spend to $50/day of serious work. It doesn't make much sense.
- sroussey 8mo ago
  Anthropic is subsidizing Claude Code. It makes lots of sense.
- verdverm 8mo ago
  The paid plans require you to use their interfaces or tooling. The main reason I pay per token is so I have tooling freedom. I'm not keen to let Big AI decide how I interact with this game changing technology.
  - cortesoft 8mo ago
    I haven't yet been blocked by their tooling. All the current tools I use seem to work fine with the claude code interface, can just call it with -p.
copperx 8mo ago
$100 is for casual usage. To use it for work requires $200/mi plus extra usage.
- Gobd 8mo ago
  CC does all of my work and I have hit the $100/mo Max plan limit only once, and I probably could have just called it quits for the day at that point.
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- cortesoft 8mo ago
  Are you saying that is the Claude rules for the subscription or saying because work uses more of it?
MattGaiser 8mo ago
How many agents are you using at once?
- h1r1ms 8mo ago
  Try this mcp for agents https://github.com/itsamruth/subagent-reuse https://github.com/itsamruth/subagent-reuse
- cortesoft 8mo ago
  3 or 4? Plus whatever sub agents they spawn...
verdverm 8mo ago
I pay per token using an API (Vertex) 1. Higher limits and quota, goes up with more spend 2. I don't think it gets quant nerf's during busy times, since you are paying directly 3. With Gemini flash + CC prompts, it's nearly as good, so less spend and latency. I don't know how people deal with the delays between turns. I get to iterate much faster for most tasks
- cortesoft 8mo ago
  I don't seem to have any delays between turns with my Claude subscription, so not sure what you mean there. Your second point seems like a guess. For your first point, I bumped to the $100 plan because i was hitting limits with the $20 one, but haven't hit the limit with the new one yet...
  - verdverm 7mo ago
    I mean the 10-30s to wait for a frontier model to respond when the lite/flash models are just fine for almost all tasks

Gobd 8mo ago

I have noticed the same with the $100/mo plan, I hit the limt only once with heavy usage. Then when I use my employer's AWS Bedrock it's not uncommon for my spend to $50/day of serious work. It doesn't make much sense.

sroussey 8mo ago
Anthropic is subsidizing Claude Code. It makes lots of sense.
verdverm 8mo ago
The paid plans require you to use their interfaces or tooling. The main reason I pay per token is so I have tooling freedom. I'm not keen to let Big AI decide how I interact with this game changing technology.
- cortesoft 8mo ago
  I haven't yet been blocked by their tooling. All the current tools I use seem to work fine with the claude code interface, can just call it with -p.

copperx 8mo ago

$100 is for casual usage. To use it for work requires $200/mi plus extra usage.

Gobd 8mo ago
CC does all of my work and I have hit the $100/mo Max plan limit only once, and I probably could have just called it quits for the day at that point.
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cortesoft 8mo ago
Are you saying that is the Claude rules for the subscription or saying because work uses more of it?

MattGaiser 8mo ago

How many agents are you using at once?

h1r1ms 8mo ago
Try this mcp for agents https://github.com/itsamruth/subagent-reuse https://github.com/itsamruth/subagent-reuse
cortesoft 8mo ago
3 or 4? Plus whatever sub agents they spawn...

verdverm 8mo ago

I pay per token using an API (Vertex) 1. Higher limits and quota, goes up with more spend 2. I don't think it gets quant nerf's during busy times, since you are paying directly 3. With Gemini flash + CC prompts, it's nearly as good, so less spend and latency. I don't know how people deal with the delays between turns. I get to iterate much faster for most tasks

cortesoft 8mo ago
I don't seem to have any delays between turns with my Claude subscription, so not sure what you mean there. Your second point seems like a guess. For your first point, I bumped to the $100 plan because i was hitting limits with the $20 one, but haven't hit the limit with the new one yet...
- verdverm 7mo ago
  I mean the 10-30s to wait for a frontier model to respond when the lite/flash models are just fine for almost all tasks