Comment by tiahura
13 days ago
Do people really use claude code or any other agent with a paid api key? Why? Why wouldn't you just get Claude Max?
13 days ago
Do people really use claude code or any other agent with a paid api key? Why? Why wouldn't you just get Claude Max?
I wouldn't use Claude API Key pricing, but I also wouldn't get a Claude Max sub unless it was the only AI tool I used.
Antigravity / Google AI Pro is much better value, been using it as my primary IDE assistant for a couple months and have yet to hit a quota limit on my $16/mo sub (annual pricing) which also includes a tonne of other AI perks inc. Nano Banana, TTS, NotebookLM, storage, etc.
No need to use Anthropic's premium models for tool calling when Gemini/MiniMax are better value models that still perform well.
I still have a Claude Pro plan, but I use it much less than Antigravity and thanks to Anthropic axing their sub usage, I no longer use it outside of CC.
Counterpoint: on the $20 monthly account I would hit my 5 hour limits within an hour on antigravity. I end up spending half my time managing my context and keeping conversations short.
Yeah, I’ve hit this too. Once you do real agentic work or TDD, you’re optimizing context instead of code. That frustration is why we built Cortex: flat cost, no turn limits, runs locally, and git-aware context so you can just keep going. cortex.build
Rate limits mostly - plus claude code is a relatively recent thing but sonnet api has been around for a while with 3rd party apps (like cline). In those scenarios, it was only api.