Comment by jefffoster
21 hours ago
At a guess an Enterprise API account. Pay per token but no limits.
It’s very easy to spend $100s per dev per day.
21 hours ago
At a guess an Enterprise API account. Pay per token but no limits.
It’s very easy to spend $100s per dev per day.
The $200/month plan doesn't have limits either - they have an overage fee you can pay now in Claude Code so once you've expended your rate limited token allowance you can keep on working and pay for the extra tokens out of an additional cash reserve you've set up.
> The $200/month plan doesn't have limits either... once you've expended your rate limited token allowance... pay for the extra tokens out of an additional cash reserve you've set up
You're absolutely right! Limited token allowance for $200/month is actually unlimited tokens when paying for extra from a cash reserve which is also unlimited, of course.
I think you may have misunderstood something here.
When paying for Claude Max even at $200/month there are limits - you have a limit to the number of tokens you can use per five hour period, and if you run out of that you may have to wait an hour for the reset.
You COULD instead use an API key and avoid that limit and reset, but that would end up costing you significantly more since the $200/month plan represents such a big discount on API costs.
As-of a few weeks ago there's a third option: pay for the $200/month plan but allow it to charge you extra for tokens when you reach those limits. That gives you the discount but means your work isn't interrupted.
Extra Usage for Paid Claude Plans: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12429409-extra-usage-...
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Oh, I wasn't arguing that it isn't "easy to spend $100s per dev per day". I was just asking what the use-case for that is.