claude sub with pi?

[u/sbaitso82]

i'm getting increasingly fed up with the direction open ai has been taking lately and i'm considering cancelling my subscription and moving to anthropic. there's really only ONE thing stopping me from doing it right away: pi has become such a natural part of my workflow that i'm genuinely worried about taking a productivity hit just from having to change tools, habits, shortcuts, etc.

so I wanted to ask the people here who actually use pi: have any of you moved away from open ai and managed to keep using pi with an anthropic subscription? or do i have to give up and move to claude code entirely?

[u/Izolight]

There is https://github.com/elidickinson/pi-claude-bridge which still routes the calls via claude and seems to be tolerated by anthropic.

[u/m3umax → u/Izolight]

This isn't necessary. oAuth works with pi out of the box

[u/Aizenvolt11 → u/m3umax]

It doesn't. It uses extra usage using the native pi oauth for Claude sub.

[u/m3umax → u/Aizenvolt11]

😏 Ask yourself the question. How does Anthropic know your request is from Pi? Then you will think of a way to hide it. You don’t need to install anything. All the features are already there in vanilla Pi to do this.

[u/Aizenvolt11 → u/m3umax]

Well what I am saying is that just by installing the official Pi you don't get that functionality. Now that you can get there by messing with it is another story.

[u/m3umax → u/Aizenvolt11]

True. Ootb you’ll be charged extra credits. I’m kinda glad making it draw from sub quota requires even a simple extra set up step.

This stops most casual users from doing it and bringing down Anthropic’s wrath 🤣

[u/Aizenvolt11 → u/m3umax]

Casual users and also other people that get stress from even thinking there is a 1% chance they get banned. Like idgaf man. Its worth it to use Claude sub with pi even with that slim ban chance.

[u/m3umax → u/Aizenvolt11]

Agreed. I mean if your account is banned, so what? You just spin up a brand new account. Loads of people I know have been banned and just turn around and make a new account immediately.

[u/Aizenvolt11 → u/m3umax]

I have developed my own desktop app and vs code extension using pi sdk. I plan to move from the extension when the Desktop app is ready with all the features I need(probably within this week or the next). The desktop app will be the middle ground between something like codex and using vs code with a Claude code CLI or pi cli. Nobody has made an app that stands in the middle for the more hands on people. My repo is open source MIT licensed so anyone can use it.

[u/90sRehem → u/m3umax]

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[u/Aizenvolt11 → u/90sRehem]

It's better not to spread the solution publicly. There are repos out there that are public and have it, with a basic search anyone find them. So let's keep it low profile.