[daemonologist]

Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

[lxgr]

I suspect that any GPU cycle not spent on inference will just be dedicated to training (which as I understand it can “soak up” essentially unlimited compute at constant value per token), and I’d not expect to see time-based billing until that changes.

[pgwhalen]

Isn't this post an announcement of time-based billing? Just in a kind of indirect way (not billing, rather than billing).

Also, my (extremely naive) understanding is that at the cutting edge, hardware is diverging for training vs inference. That might not be true for Anthropic though.

[AntiRush]

This is an announcement of time-based billing.

[matheusmoreira]

Would be better if they simply made it free for open source developers. I can barely justify spending time on my hobby projects. If I paid for this, I'd be paying to work for them since they're using our data for training.

[cortesoft]

How would this work? How would they verify that someone is an “open source developer”?

[Mossly]

Anthropic is taking applications here:

https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss

[matheusmoreira]

Huh. This is cool. Sadly I'm not big enough to benefit from this. Here's to hoping that changes in the future.

[bigiain]

They could probably fairly easily identify all the authors of the opensource software the hoovered up and used in their training set.

But them even admitting that was possible is a little bit to close to being able to be held accountable...

[neonstatic]

They would use the "trust me bro" verification mechanism

[fullerstackdev]

This use to be the case, but in the last 36 hrs or so, copilot silently kneecapped Claude models and I've been getting rate limited on like every 3rd request. Not only does the call fail mid way, they still charge me for the request.

[Razengan]

A $50-per-week Codex Pro/Claude Max plan would be perfect for solo gamedevs/open-source devs who have existing code that would benefit from an occasional review pass or subsystem experiments/brainstorming with the most powerful models, but don't need to use one for a whole month.

[mavilia]

I canceled my plan today and wrote my reason as: now that I have a job again I don’t have the time or needs for the pro plan. If there was a $5 a month option, I would gladly take it to make use of Opus for my rare side ideas.

[szatkus]

Pay as you go. I never spent more than $10/month working on my side project (usually a few evenings per month).

[rednafi]

I have the enterprise plan and get to use it for both work and some personal stuff.

I mainly use it for side projects and doing research for writing stuff on my blog.

I use Opus 4.6 with claude code 1M context and consistently use up 150-200$ worth of token per day. I wonder how do you manage to do anything with a 10$/mo program.

[sigseg1v]

On my gamedev side project I have a ralph loop going on the $100 5x plan and it caps the session limit 4-5 times a day and hit the weekly limit in 3 days. Token usage is around $750 a week or $3000 a month according to "npx ccusage". I would have to be insane to pay that instead of $100.

[gck1]

ccusage on my $200 subscription shows that I'd spend ~$600 per day if I used PAYGO model.

[salomonk_mur]

Hard to justify? 20/month for like 5x output is a great deal (be it Claude or Codex or whatever), even if it lasts only 2-3 hours per day.

[ayayaya]

If $20 a month for a full on powerhouse of a model is hard for you to justify, maybe get a new job?

[nycdatasci]

You’re not using Claude Code?

[port11]

TBF it’s not palatable to everyone. I found Claude Code hard to use, but willingly pay for Opus and Sonnet used with a different tool.

[nikcub]

the $20 pro plan would also have double offpeak limits - just set it to sonnet and you'll get a reasonable level of output

[paulddraper]

Claude Pro is $20/month.

[the__alchemist]

Isn't Co-Pilot tied to VsCode?

[gnabgib]

No, it's in notepad, Edge, all MS Office products, Azure, M365. But you also get to chose your model: MS, OpenAI, Anthropic.

[the__alchemist]

Ah I see! I had it mixed-up with another LLM service starting with the same letter.

[amonroe0805]

You can use it w/ things like opencode. They also have their own Claude-Code-like CLI (but I find opencode to be better).

[iamflimflam1]

Set up an API key and use that.