alt Hacker NewsDo people really use claude code or any other agent with a paid api key? Why? Why wouldn't you just get Claude Max?
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tgtweak • yesterday at 6:40 PM
Rate limits mostly - plus claude code is a relatively recent thing but sonnet api has been around for a while with 3rd party apps (like cline). In those scenarios, it was only api.
I wouldn't use Claude API Key pricing, but I also wouldn't get a Claude Max sub unless it was the only AI tool I used.
Antigravity / Google AI Pro is much better value, been using it as my primary IDE assistant for a couple months and have yet to hit a quota limit on my $16/mo sub (annual pricing) which also includes a tonne of other AI perks inc. Nano Banana, TTS, NotebookLM, storage, etc.
No need to use Anthropic's premium models for tool calling when Gemini/MiniMax are better value models that still perform well.
I still have a Claude Pro plan, but I use it much less than Antigravity and thanks to Anthropic axing their sub usage, I no longer use it outside of CC.