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by szatkus 98 days ago
Pay as you go. I never spent more than $10/month working on my side project (usually a few evenings per month).
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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.

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