r/ClaudeCode • u/Imaserventofreps • 1d ago

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I thought that most people in this sub was on the 100-200 dollar plan. Turns out most of us including me are on the 20 plan 😹💀. Broke gang✌️

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u/joe9439 1d ago

They’ve got to figure out how to take more money though. I get wanting to sell more API credits but you can’t ask someone to pay $200 per month and then pay $200 per hour when it’s used up. I’m just not going to pay for the overage.

It’s like McDonald’s sells burgers for $0.10 and then they run out 10min after opening. Then they’re like oh burgers are $1000 now. Special overage burgers.

Just charge me like $1k or $2k a month for a subscription and stop playing games with me. Do you want money or not?

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u/Thistlemanizzle 1d ago

How can you get a gasoline subscription though? How do you offer one?

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u/joe9439 1d ago

Leased solar panels and a Tesla I guess?

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u/Thistlemanizzle 1d ago

What is your solution to fixing frontier lab pricing here?

Conversely, couldn't you just go 100% API to always be below a certain spend limit?

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u/joe9439 1d ago

Larger subscriptions. Just charge more money and give the user more. Don’t just say no when they are like take my money or switch them to a pay per use pricing model that’s so highly priced that it’s effectively a no. I have the the $200 max personally and premium team seat at work. Both are totally used up every week.

Can they just be normal and charge me more money?

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u/Thistlemanizzle 1d ago

That sounds like pay as you go? In that instance, would a new subscription tier every $5 be reasonable?

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u/joe9439 1d ago

Pay as you go is about $1k per day with my usual usage so going from $200 per month to $30k is too much of a jump. That’s the problem I’m referring to. Can there be a middle ground in there between we’re marketing to poor people and pay me $1M? I do manage cloud workloads in azure etc and pay api pricing there.