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Given the hard budget, I'd throw the $30 on API credits and use those as overflow. If you can do the $100 plan though, that would be optimal. It's a frustrating
by freedomben 7mo ago
Given the hard budget, I'd throw the $30 on API credits and use those as overflow. If you can do the $100 plan though, that would be optimal. It's a frustrating game though. I'd love to see a 50 dollar plan. At least Claude has a 100 plan, unlike openai.
- muzani 7mo agoI did try Extra Usage and API credits with Claude and it chews through $5 in minutes. Unlike GPT, the subscription is a better deal. I definitely do not recommend API credits and such. It's more efficient to use Claude through some other provider like Antigravity, Cursor, and so on.
- freedomben 7mo ago> * it chews through $5 in minutes* Whoa, if you're using it that much, you should definitely look at the $100 plan. Either that, or you'll have to use an older model or reduce thinking (which does really tank the quality of results unfortunately) or look at a local model. I don't think there's really many other options. For a while I did a $20 sub to both OpenAI and Claude and just switched back and forth. I was able to get pretty far that way, but it can feel a bit disruptive.
- muzani 7mo agoThere seems to be a recent bug around usage limits around the time I wrote that: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1s27ugk/usage_limit_bug_is_measurable_widespread_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1s27ugk/usage_l... Free runs out in two, yes two uses on peak hours, on Claude Sonnet. The basic paid has 5x the use, which hits the limit at 10 uses. The $100 plan is 5x of this, which is still a limit at 50 uses on Sonnet. At one point, Cursor would give you the same usage limits as the $200 plan, but now the pricing has changed. The reason I switch is because something always breaks with these AI providers, Anthropic being a common offender.