[HN Gopher] A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
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A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
Author : namukang
Score : 41 points
Date : 2025-05-08 21:12 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| jbellis wrote:
| One of my problems developing Brokk (AI coding for large
| codebases, https://brokk.ai) is that everyone is used to Cursor-
| style pricing of $20ish a month, but Brokk is designed around
| long-form prompts, it's a lot closer to a leash for Claude Code
| than it is to a Cursor or a Copilot, and the bill is a lot closer
| to CC too. (But of course Brokk is vendor neutral; you can
| absolutely mix o3 with GP2.5 with S3.7.)
|
| So maybe Anthropic setting this precedent will solve my problem!
| ghuntley wrote:
| nah, there are low powered tools and there's high powered
| tools. If people want $20/month happy meal toys in business
| that business will get left behind. Ignore the consumer market,
| make Bugatti's instead - https://ghuntley.com/redlining
|
| ps - catchup for social zoom beers?
| jbellis wrote:
| you're right about the context limits
|
| i pinged what i think is the right ghuntley on linkedin,
| rizzler looks like the next feature i'm building for brokk :)
| ghuntley wrote:
| This is me - speak soon.
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreyhuntley
| owebmaster wrote:
| > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post
| your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the
| site should be for curiosity.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| ghuntley wrote:
| the new Claude code "max plan" would last me all of [1] 5mins...
| I don't get why people are excited about this. High powered tools
| aren't cheap and aren't for the consumer...
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/live/khr-cIc7zjc?si=oI9Fj33JBeDlQEYG
| iLoveOncall wrote:
| If that's the case you should stop using it, because there's no
| way you see any ROI when you spend that much to just do some
| coding stuff.
|
| It would be cheaper to your company to literally pay your
| salary while you do nothing.
| postalrat wrote:
| I'd love to see your math.
| justanotheratom wrote:
| I am sure this is worth every dime, but my workflow is so used to
| Cursor now (cursor rules, model choice, tab complete, to be
| specific), that I can't be bothered to try this out.
| s17n wrote:
| If you're using Cursor with Claude it's gonna be pretty much
| the same thing. Personally I use Claude Code because I hate the
| Cursor interface but if you like it I don't think you're
| missing much.
| justanotheratom wrote:
| I don't enjoy the interface as such, rather the workflows
| that it enables.
| tkzed49 wrote:
| The problem is that this is $100/mo with limits. At work I use
| Cursor, which is pretty good (especially tab completion), and at
| home I use Copilot in vscode insiders build, which is catching up
| to Cursor IMO.
|
| However, as long as Microsoft is offering copilot at (presumably
| subsidized) $10/mo, I'm not interested in paying 10x as much and
| still having limits. It would have to be 10x as useful, and I
| doubt that.
| tkzed49 wrote:
| I'll add on to this: I don't really use agent modes a lot. In
| an existing codebase, they waste a lot of my time for mixed
| results. Maybe Claude Code is so much better at this that it
| enables a different paradigm of AI editing--but I'd need easy,
| cheap access to try it.
| koakuma-chan wrote:
| > but I'd need easy, cheap access to try it.
|
| You can try it for cheap with the normal pay-as-you-go way.
| warp wrote:
| You don't need a max subscription to use Claude Code. By
| default it uses your API credits, and I guess I'm not a heavy
| AI user yet (for my hobby projects), but I haven't spent more
| than $5/month on Claude Code the past few months.
| EnPissant wrote:
| I spent $5 in 10 minutes when I tried it.
| koakuma-chan wrote:
| The problem with it is that it uses a 30k~ token system
| prompt (albeit "cached"), and very quickly the usage goes
| up to a few million. I can easily spend over $10 a day.
| I_am_tiberius wrote:
| Do you still need a phone number to register with claude?
| abetaha wrote:
| I wonder how successful this pricing model ($100-$200 a month
| with limits) is going to be. It is very hard to justify, when
| other tooling in the ~$20/month range offers unlimited usage, and
| comparable quality.
| slrainka wrote:
| Agent mode without rails is like a boat without a rudder.
|
| What worked for me was coming up with an extremely opinionated
| way to develop an application and then generating instructions
| (mini milestones) by combining it with the requirements.
|
| These instructions end up being very explicit in the sequence of
| things it should do (write the tests first), how the code should
| be written and where to place it etc. So the output ended up
| being very similar regardless of the coding agent being used.
| cye131 wrote:
| I'm curious whether anyone's actually using Claude code
| successfully. I tried it on release and found it negative value
| for tasks other than spinning up generic web projects. For
| existing codebases of even a moderate size, it burns through cash
| to write code that is always slightly wrong and requires more
| tuning than writing it myself.
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