200 bucks a month isn't enough. Fine. Make a plan that is enough so that I will be left alone about time limits and enforced breaks.
NOTHING breaks flow better than "Woops! Times up!"; it's worse than credit quotas -- at least then I can make a conscious decision to spend more money or not towards the project.
This whole 'twiddle your thumbs for 5 hours while the gpus cool off' concept isn't productive for me.
'35 hours' is absolutely nothing when you spawn lots of agents, and the damn thing is built to support that behavior.
> '35 hours' is absolutely nothing when you spawn lots of agents, and the damn thing is built to support that behavior.
I wouldn't call "spawning a lot of agents" to be a typical use case of the personal plan.
That was always in the domain of switching to a pay as you go API. It's nice that they allowed it on the fixed rate plans, but those plans were always advertised as higher limits, not unlimited.
API has fewer limits, and practically limitless. Claude is also on Aws and gcp, where you get more quotas (probably credits as well) and different rate limits.
The way these work is they're net profitable given all users, so you have to recategorize users in one of two ways:
- a user subsidizing other users
- a user subsidized by other users
I don't know what OP prefers, but given that people are saying "woof, API pricing too expensive", it sounds like the latter.
The problem, of course, is the provider has to find a market where the one sustains the other. Are there enough users who would pay > $200/mo without getting their money's worth in order to subsidize users paying the same rate, but using more than the average? I think the non-existence of a higher-tier plan says there probably isn't, but I don't want to give too much credence to markets, economics, etc.
I use Claude Code authenticated via the API (Anthropic Console). There's no limits for me. And I also assume API-metered requests are prioritized, so it's faster as well.
The API does have limits but they’re determined by your monthly spend. I did a trial of tier 1 spend and did hit the limits, but on on tier two spending it was much much better.
I know how to program; I just don’t have the time to do it all and my company doesn’t have the revenue to support more devs. So; this is the best way to make do with what I have.
What if they're using it to help them learn to program? There are plenty of valid uses people might have. And ultimately, it's their call, right? Capitalism and all that. I suppose the argument then is "just use the API", and sure, that's a solution. Yet it's odd to have an expensive subscription that's heavily rate limited like this.
It's a non-issue for me. When I hit the limit, which is rare, I go back to analog life where I use my head's brain to do the heavy lifting and that has all kinds of perks that Claude doesn't have. I get why people are frustrated, though.
NOTHING breaks flow better than "Woops! Times up!"; it's worse than credit quotas -- at least then I can make a conscious decision to spend more money or not towards the project.
This whole 'twiddle your thumbs for 5 hours while the gpus cool off' concept isn't productive for me.
'35 hours' is absolutely nothing when you spawn lots of agents, and the damn thing is built to support that behavior.