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If it helps anyone else. I downgraded from Claude max to pro for $20 and the usage limits are really good.

I think they’re trying to compete with Gemini cli and now I’m glad I’m paying less

I am on max and burning daily (ccusage) roughly my monthly subscription. It is not clear whether the API is very overpriced or we are getting aggressively subsidized. I can afford $100-200/month but not $3.000. Let's hope this last for a good while as GitHub copilot turned off the tap on unlimited usage very recently.

you will run through the pro rate limiting within <1h if you do it the way the article lays out.

But yeah, if you're babysitting a single agent, only applying after reading what it wants to do ... You'll be fine for 3-4 hours before the token limit refreshed after the 5th

Same experience. One terminal window with Pro is okay. Multiple CC running in parallel not.

We most likely implement a policy that starters in our company can use Pro. Power users need Max.

I've heard that if you have several relatively active separate sessions open, the limit is a little less restrictive. Especially if you do a /clear and continue your session on a different project. Honestly, a lot of Claude Code seems vibecoded if you look at the client side, too. Can't tell if I'm surprised that the backend has an element of that, too. Hey, dogfood tastes good - I respect them for that.

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