Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`

puglr•about 1 hour ago

It's a bit disheartening that this is generating so little discussion (this thread seems to be the one with the most comments, currently at 8).

99% of my max plan usage is non-interactive, and this post-June 15 pricing will far, far exceed what I can afford. I assume this applies to a great deal of us.

solenoid0937•35 minutes ago

It's not bad at all. You get $200 in monthly extra usage credits. Unless you are a deeply unprofitable user this change is no big deal.

sigseg1v•18 minutes ago

is using a Ralph loop for all tasks with "claude -p" and using my weekly limit up to 100% considered some kind of unprofitable outlier? It's a command line tool, it would be ridiculous to expect that a large number of users don't do this. I never launch "claude" interactively by itself.

My understanding is that now with this workflow I will pay the same amount but get much less usage before getting to 100% for the week. How is that not bad?

mkw5053•about 1 hour ago

Out of curiosity, how are you using it and for what?

paulddraper•about 1 hour ago

Yeah, it's a pretty wild change.

It's one thing for Anthropic to ban subscription usage of OpenCode etc of their backend.

It's another thing to use their tools and still not get the full usage.

Claude's recent one 9 of uptime [1] might have something to do with it.

[1] https://status.claude.com/

ramoz•about 3 hours ago

The wording in the press is very confusing. Not sure if deliberate.

If you're an active `claude -p` user, it will now cost you API rates vs being able to user your subscription.

UPDATE: https://x.com/lydiahallie/status/2054650920768807313?s=20

Still confused.

solenoid0937•34 minutes ago

You also get $200 in monthly credits so it's not bad.

aselimov3•about 3 hours ago

Where are you seeing that info?? The link you posted says nothing about -p

ramoz•about 2 hours ago

I wasn't able to post the official links because it was already posted by simple reposters who didn't understand, and titled their HN posts as "you get credits" basically

this is the original thread https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388?s=20

paulddraper•about 2 hours ago

It's literally there.

teg4n_•about 2 hours ago

I mean it does cost you API rates, you just get a certain amount of credit by having a subscription.

solenoid0937•33 minutes ago

Before the doomers come in, you get $200 in API credits every month for claude -p usage. Usage counts against those API credits.

This is a nothing burger.

ramoz•32 minutes ago

This is much of a something burger for users who actively use `claude -p` under their subscription. Users will have to do their own math, but that 200 could come and go quite fast and then you're hitting normal API rates versus what you had previously been hitting.

https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/2054682882753597603?s=20

solenoid0937•24 minutes ago

Sure, but if you spend that many tokens you're probably a pretty big net loss for the company anyways. No company will subsidize that level of compute for you indefinitely.

ramoz•19 minutes ago

Yea that's fine and understandable.

But like I said, this is something for those users. I launch many review processes locally with `claude -p`

paulddraper•about 2 hours ago

Title is misleading. (EDIT: Has been updated)

https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388

You can claim a monthly credit that covers programmatic (`claude -p`, etc) usage.

So a Claude subscription does cover it, but at a lesser amount.

ramoz•about 2 hours ago

Happy to change the title if there is explicit clarity on what my `claude -p` usage costs me today & it not differing from what it'll cost me once the change is in effect.

throawayonthe•about 3 hours ago

hahahahahahaha

Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`

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