[adamgordonbell]

I use windsurf, have the largest plan and still need to top up quite a bit.

So for me it has a price per task, sort of, because you are topping it up by paying another 10 dollars at a time as you run out.

The plans aren't the right size for professional work, but maybe they wanted to keep the price points low?

[runako]

> The plans aren't the right size for professional work

I think there is a fundamental pricing misalignment between products that seek to do professional work being sold to people who want them to help with professional work.

Another way: their pricing will likely make much more sense for a person whose coding skill is closer to zero (& who doesn't want to learn) than it will for a person who is looking for an AI assistant.

[ako]

For me it felt the opposite: pricing works for software engineers that carefully validate every line of code, that will ask for test and documentation. It doesn’t work for vibe coding where the user will just trial and error code generation until it works. You’re running through credits much faster this way.

[runako]

I guess what I am saying is the pricing is high for the person sitting at the keyboard but low for the person signing the payroll checks (because it's cheaper than an engineer). At least, that's the direction of things.

[adamgordonbell]

For me, it feels like because I'm asking for the change, and the tests to pass and the types to pass pyright and ect, that the agent spends more cycles on a change then someone who didn't code would.