alt Hacker News> A Claude Code subscription should not work with other software.
why not though? aren't you paying for the model usage regardless of the client you use?
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weird-eye-issue • last Friday at 4:39 AM
That's not up to you or me. I think it's pretty clear by the phrase "Claude Code subscription" that it's meant for only "Claude Code". Why are you confused?
This could be so easily abused by companies who spend thousands of dollars per month for API costs you could just reverse engineer it and use the subscription tokens to get that down to a few hundred
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conception • last Friday at 4:39 AM
But they get telemetry, feedback, good will, etc. That’s one reason why usage is discounted to a subscription fee.
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nebezb • last Friday at 4:42 AM
> aren't you paying for the model usage
No, you’re paying for “Claude Code” usage.
No, you are paying to use Claude code… it uses the model underneath, but you aren’t paying for raw model usage. For whatever reason, Anthropic thinks this is the best way to divide up their market.
They want to charge more for direct access to the model.