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Comment by qsort

13 days ago

Seems like it's a "limited" version of the offering though:

> Pro ($20/month): Average users can send approximately 45 messages with Claude every 5 hours, OR send approximately 10-40 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours > Model access: Pro plan subscribers can access Sonnet 4, but won’t be able to use Opus 4 with Claude Code

Most importantly no Opus 4. Still a great nice to have!

I spend well over $20 a day when I am relying heavily on claude code. The $200/mo plan is a steal if the rate limits turn out to be reasonable.

  • I haven't hit a limit yet on the $200 plan, but did hit the limit quite frequently on the $100 plan FWIW. I can't imagine these Pro limits will be very useful except for very light stuff.

Is it still worth, I mean how's Sonnet vs Opus in terms of daily coding? I'm no asking about token usage, that's too abstract for me, but can it cover the whole codebase, and such.

  • how's Sonnet vs Opus in terms of daily coding?

    For doing 'boring' day to day things in python I find them more or less the same. For doing non-trivial things in Rust, Opus is much better. Sonnet is much more prone to producing garbage that is just completely wrong in those cases. However I find Gemini 2.5 Pro better than both for harder programming problems.

    • Gemini is better than Claude in cursor, but in Claude coder I think Sonnet is better than Gemini (in cursor agent, can't use Gemini without the bridge or something else and I don't care about that case, may as well use aider or something similar).

  • I guess it depends? It seems a limited offering if you're planning to go all-in on agents, but on the other hand one of the most common complaints about Claude Code is that its costs are unpredictable and weird.

    Your mileage may vary dramatically, but I don't think I would subscribe to Pro just for this. It's a "nice to have" on top of my existing Pro subscription whose services are the bulk of the value I'm paying for.