Comment by johndough
5 hours ago
API pricing for Claude is about an order of magnitude more expensive than subscriptions (numbers: https://she-llac.com/claude-limits). But it may be worth it with DeepSeek V4 Pro, which is currently on discount.
5 hours ago
API pricing for Claude is about an order of magnitude more expensive than subscriptions (numbers: https://she-llac.com/claude-limits). But it may be worth it with DeepSeek V4 Pro, which is currently on discount.
Depends very much on usage! If you connect it to tools like Cursor, etc. then yes a subscription is probably cheaper -- although, you'd have to subscribe to each provider if you want to use them all.
But if you ask questions occasionally, (and don't resend, for example, your whole codebase with each request), then the API feels really cheap, even for the frontier models.