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by ggsp 366 days ago
You can definitely use Claude Code via the API
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I think he means it's not economically sound to use it via API
A well-known iOS dev used Claude Code to build an iOS app and wrote a custom checking tool for how many tokens it consumed on the plan to compare with API pricing.

He uses two max plans ($200/mo + $200/mo) and his API estimate was north of $10,000/mo