[freedomben]

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]

I 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]

> * 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]

There seems to be a recent bug around usage limits around the time I wrote that: 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.