Comment by ramesh31
1 day ago
Particularly with the VSCode extension. I was a loyal Cline user until recently because of how good the editor experience was, but the ability for Claude to go off and run for 10+ minutes effectively autonomously, and show me the diffs in realtime is a gamechanger. The token usage has also gotten much more efficient in the last few months. With proper IDE support now I don't see any reason at all to use anything else, especially not the "credit" based middle-man providers (Windsurf/Cursor et. al).
Same here, I was convinced Cline+OpenRouter was the way to go. But with Claude code I’m getting better results and saving money, even compared to planning with Sonnet and transitioning to act mode with DeepSeek, I was still using more than $20/mo easily.