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    Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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    2127 points bakugo | 12 comments | 24 Feb 25 18:28 UTC | HN request time: 1.12s | source | bottom
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    bcherny ◴[24 Feb 25 19:04 UTC] No.43163488[source]▶
    Hi everyone! Boris from the Claude Code team here. @eschluntz, @catherinewu, @wolffiex, @bdr and I will be around for the next hour or so and we'll do our best to answer your questions about the product.
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    pookieinc ◴[24 Feb 25 19:09 UTC] No.43163554[source]▶
    The biggest complaint I (and several others) have is that we continuously hit the limit via the UI after even just a few intensive queries. Of course, we can use the console API, but then we lose ability to have things like Projects, etc.

    Do you foresee these limitations increasing anytime soon?

    Quick Edit: Just wanted to also say thank you for all your hard work, Claude has been phenomenal.

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    clangfan ◴[24 Feb 25 19:35 UTC] No.43163889[source]▶
    this is also my problem, ive only used the UI with $20 subscription, can I use the same subscription to use the cli? I'm afraid its like those aws api billing where there is no limit to how much I can use then get a surprise bill
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    1. eschluntz ◴[24 Feb 25 20:14 UTC] No.43164409[source]▶
    It is API billing like AWS - you pay for what you use. Every time you exit a session we print the cost, and in the middle of a session you can do /cost to see your cost so far that session!

    You can track costs in a few ways and set spend limits to avoid surprises: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/claude-c...

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    2. mindok ◴[24 Feb 25 20:56 UTC] No.43164841[source]▶
    Which is theoretically great, but if anyone can get an Aussie credit card to work, please let me know.
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    3. robbiep ◴[24 Feb 25 21:16 UTC] No.43165019[source]▶
    I haven’t had an issue with Aussie cards?

    But I still hit limits, I use Claudemind with jetbrains stuff and there is a max of input tokens (j believe), I am ‘tier 2’ but doesn’t look like I can go past this without an enterprise agreement

    4. danw1979 ◴[24 Feb 25 22:25 UTC] No.43165653[source]▶
    What I really want (as a current Pro subscriber) is a subscription tier ("Ultimate" at ~$120/month ?) that gives me priority access to the usual chat interface, but _also_ a bunch of API credits that would ensure Claude and I can code together for most of the average working month (reasonable estimate would be 4 hours a day, 15 days a month).

    i.e I'd like my chat and API usage to be all included under a flat-rate subscription.

    Currenty Pro doesn't give me any API credits to use with coding assistants (Claude Code included ?) which is completely disjointed. And I need to be a business to use the API still ?

    Honestly, Claude is so good, just please take my money and make it easy to do the above !

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    5. Aeolun ◴[24 Feb 25 23:03 UTC] No.43165991[source]▶
    I don’t think you need to be a business to use the API? At least I’m fairly certain I’m using it in a personal capacity. You are never going to hit $120/month even with full-time usage (no guarantees of course, but I get to like $40/month).
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    6. istjohn ◴[24 Feb 25 23:04 UTC] No.43166003[source]▶
    You don't need to be a business to use the API.
    7. dghlsakjg ◴[24 Feb 25 23:10 UTC] No.43166054[source]▶
    You can do this yourself. Anyone can buy API credits. I literally just did this with my personal credit card using my gmail based account earlier today.

    1. Subscribe to Claude Pro for $20 month

    2. Separately, Buy $100 worth of API credits.

    Now you have a Claude "ultimate" subscription where the credits roll over as an added bonus.

    As someone who only uses the APIs, and not the subscription services for AI, I can tell you that $100 is A LOT of usage. Quite frankly, I've never used anywhere close to $20 in a month which is why I don't subscribe. I mostly just use text though, so if you do a lot of image generation that can add up quickly

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    8. numba888 ◴[24 Feb 25 23:44 UTC] No.43166309{3}[source]▶
    I don't think you can generate images with claude. just asked it for pink elephant: "I can't generate images directly, but I can create an SVG representation of a pink elephant for you." And it did it :)
    9. dr_kiszonka ◴[24 Feb 25 23:47 UTC] No.43166332{3}[source]▶
    That is a good idea. For something like Claude Code, $100 is not a lot, though.
    10. Terretta ◴[25 Feb 25 00:39 UTC] No.43166709{3}[source]▶
    Careful -- a solo dev using it professionally, meaning, coding with it as a pair coder (XP style), can easily spend $1500/week.
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    11. zzygan ◴[25 Feb 25 23:13 UTC] No.43178752[source]▶
    No issue with AU credit card here. Is a credit card and not a debit card though
    12. dghlsakjg ◴[26 Feb 25 17:06 UTC] No.43185623{4}[source]▶
    $1500 is 100 million output tokens, or 500 million input tokens for Claude 3.7.

    The entire LOTR trilogy is ~.55 million tokens (1,200 pages, published).

    If you are sending and receiving the text equivalent of several hundred copies of the LOTR trilogy every week, I don't think you are actually using AI for anything useful, or you are providing far too much context.