Comment by bheadmaster

9 days ago

> people use credits? I only use a monthly subscription

Those still have limits, no? Or if there's a subscription that provides limitless access, please tell me which one it is.

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embedding-shape  9 days ago

I've been on ChatGPT Pro plan since introduced, and also used codex-rs since it was made public, never hit a limit. Came close last week, not sure if the limits were recently introduced or there always was but they got lowered, but I think that's as close to "unlimited" as you can get without running your own inference.

I've tried Anthropic's Max plan before, but hit limits after just a couple of hours, same with Google's stuff, but wasn't doing anything radically different when I tried those, compared with Codex, so seems other's limits are way lower.

esperent  9 days ago

I finally bit the bullet and got a $200 Claude subscription last month. It's been a busy month and I've used it a lot. More than is healthy, more than I sustainably could for more than a few weeks. I've managed to hit a 5 hour limit exactly once (20 minutes before it refreshed) and I've never hit more than 80% of a weekly limit.

But if I did - and I could imagine having some specific highly parallelizable work like writing a bazillion unit tests where I send out 40 subagents at a time - then the solution would be to buy two subscriptions. Not switch to API billing.

  • bheadmaster  8 days ago

    While that sounds impressive, a $200 subscription is still not pocket change. Do you have any approximation of the amount of tokens you use on average, and how much would it cost on a per-million-of-token billing?

    • esperent  8 days ago

      Good question. I bought the subscription on 16th of January. I used a tool called ccusage.com. Assuming it's accurate, since then I would have racked up $1976.64 in API charges. There's been one single day that would have cost $324.82.

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