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by muzani 82 days ago
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.
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freedomben 82 days ago
> * 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.

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muzani 82 days ago
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.

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