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Seems like it's a "limited" version of the offering though:

> Pro ($20/month): Average users can send approximately 45 messages with Claude every 5 hours, OR send approximately 10-40 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours > Model access: Pro plan subscribers can access Sonnet 4, but won’t be able to use Opus 4 with Claude Code

Most importantly no Opus 4. Still a great nice to have!

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I spend well over $20 a day when I am relying heavily on claude code. The $200/mo plan is a steal if the rate limits turn out to be reasonable.

I haven't hit a limit yet on the $200 plan, but did hit the limit quite frequently on the $100 plan FWIW. I can't imagine these Pro limits will be very useful except for very light stuff.

Is it still worth, I mean how's Sonnet vs Opus in terms of daily coding? I'm no asking about token usage, that's too abstract for me, but can it cover the whole codebase, and such.

I guess it depends? It seems a limited offering if you're planning to go all-in on agents, but on the other hand one of the most common complaints about Claude Code is that its costs are unpredictable and weird.

Your mileage may vary dramatically, but I don't think I would subscribe to Pro just for this. It's a "nice to have" on top of my existing Pro subscription whose services are the bulk of the value I'm paying for.

how's Sonnet vs Opus in terms of daily coding?

For doing 'boring' day to day things in python I find them more or less the same. For doing non-trivial things in Rust, Opus is much better. Sonnet is much more prone to producing garbage that is just completely wrong in those cases. However I find Gemini 2.5 Pro better than both for harder programming problems.

Gemini is better than Claude in cursor, but in Claude coder I think Sonnet is better than Gemini (in cursor agent, can't use Gemini without the bridge or something else and I don't care about that case, may as well use aider or something similar).

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