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I am always a hit confused when people talk about these charges... are you not using the subscriptions with the flat rates? I am on the $100 a month plan, and am constantly using clause code and never coming close to my limits. Maybe I am just not using it at the levels of some people...

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I pay per token using an API (Vertex)

1. Higher limits and quota, goes up with more spend

2. I don't think it gets quant nerf's during busy times, since you are paying directly

3. With Gemini flash + CC prompts, it's nearly as good, so less spend and latency. I don't know how people deal with the delays between turns. I get to iterate much faster for most tasks

I don't seem to have any delays between turns with my Claude subscription, so not sure what you mean there.

Your second point seems like a guess.

For your first point, I bumped to the $100 plan because i was hitting limits with the $20 one, but haven't hit the limit with the new one yet...

I mean the 10-30s to wait for a frontier model to respond when the lite/flash models are just fine for almost all tasks

I have noticed the same with the $100/mo plan, I hit the limt only once with heavy usage. Then when I use my employer's AWS Bedrock it's not uncommon for my spend to $50/day of serious work. It doesn't make much sense.

The paid plans require you to use their interfaces or tooling. The main reason I pay per token is so I have tooling freedom. I'm not keen to let Big AI decide how I interact with this game changing technology.

I haven't yet been blocked by their tooling. All the current tools I use seem to work fine with the claude code interface, can just call it with -p.

Anthropic is subsidizing Claude Code. It makes lots of sense.

$100 is for casual usage. To use it for work requires $200/mi plus extra usage.

CC does all of my work and I have hit the $100/mo Max plan limit only once, and I probably could have just called it quits for the day at that point.

Are you saying that is the Claude rules for the subscription or saying because work uses more of it?

How many agents are you using at once?

Try this mcp for agents https://github.com/itsamruth/subagent-reuse

3 or 4? Plus whatever sub agents they spawn...

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