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Holiday 2025 Usage Promotion
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By daemonologist 2026-03-1422:0111 reply Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).
I suspect that any GPU cycle not spent on inference will just be dedicated to training (which as I understand it can “soak up” essentially unlimited compute at constant value per token), and I’d not expect to see time-based billing until that changes.
By pgwhalen 2026-03-1423:10 Isn't this post an announcement of time-based billing? Just in a kind of indirect way (not billing, rather than billing).
Also, my (extremely naive) understanding is that at the cutting edge, hardware is diverging for training vs inference. That might not be true for Anthropic though.
By AntiRush 2026-03-1423:07 This is an announcement of time-based billing.
By matheusmoreira 2026-03-150:501 reply Would be better if they simply made it free for open source developers. I can barely justify spending time on my hobby projects. If I paid for this, I'd be paying to work for them since they're using our data for training.
How would this work? How would they verify that someone is an “open source developer”?
Anthropic is taking applications here:
By matheusmoreira 2026-03-152:27 Huh. This is cool. Sadly I'm not big enough to benefit from this. Here's to hoping that changes in the future.
By bigiain 2026-03-152:06 They could probably fairly easily identify all the authors of the opensource software the hoovered up and used in their training set.
But them even admitting that was possible is a little bit to close to being able to be held accountable...
By neonstatic 2026-03-151:27 They would use the "trust me bro" verification mechanism
I canceled my plan today and wrote my reason as: now that I have a job again I don’t have the time or needs for the pro plan. If there was a $5 a month option, I would gladly take it to make use of Opus for my rare side ideas.
Pay as you go. I never spent more than $10/month working on my side project (usually a few evenings per month).
By rednafi 2026-03-150:42 I have the enterprise plan and get to use it for both work and some personal stuff.
I mainly use it for side projects and doing research for writing stuff on my blog.
I use Opus 4.6 with claude code 1M context and consistently use up 150-200$ worth of token per day. I wonder how do you manage to do anything with a 10$/mo program.
By sigseg1v 2026-03-155:11 On my gamedev side project I have a ralph loop going on the $100 5x plan and it caps the session limit 4-5 times a day and hit the weekly limit in 3 days. Token usage is around $750 a week or $3000 a month according to "npx ccusage". I would have to be insane to pay that instead of $100.
By salomonk_mur 2026-03-1422:141 reply Hard to justify? 20/month for like 5x output is a great deal (be it Claude or Codex or whatever), even if it lasts only 2-3 hours per day.
By nycdatasci 2026-03-1422:081 reply You’re not using Claude Code?
By port11 2026-03-1520:22 TBF it’s not palatable to everyone. I found Claude Code hard to use, but willingly pay for Opus and Sonnet used with a different tool.
By nikcub 2026-03-1422:11 the $20 pro plan would also have double offpeak limits - just set it to sonnet and you'll get a reasonable level of output
By Razengan 2026-03-151:03 A $50-per-week Codex Pro/Claude Max plan would be perfect for solo gamedevs/open-source devs who have existing code that would benefit from an occasional review pass or subsystem experiments/brainstorming with the most powerful models, but don't need to use one for a whole month.
By the__alchemist 2026-03-150:532 reply Isn't Co-Pilot tied to VsCode?
No, it's in notepad, Edge, all MS Office products, Azure, M365. But you also get to chose your model: MS, OpenAI, Anthropic.
By the__alchemist 2026-03-1514:58 Ah I see! I had it mixed-up with another LLM service starting with the same letter.
By amonroe0805 2026-03-150:57 You can use it w/ things like opencode. They also have their own Claude-Code-like CLI (but I find opencode to be better).
By paulddraper 2026-03-1422:32 Claude Pro is $20/month.
By iamflimflam1 2026-03-1423:06 Set up an API key and use that.
By sieabahlpark 2026-03-1422:18 [dead]
By Aboutplants 2026-03-150:10 Pricing will soon be structured around energy costs and On/off peak power rates, I’m actually surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. Even with Behind the Meter Generation, you’re not completely mitigated from peak (daily) power prices. Being able to shift at least some demand around will help from a pure energy costs perspective.
Most of these Behind the Meter generation projects will be Gas Generation. Guess what happens during a cold snap like the one we experienced in the Northeast US a few weeks ago? Natural gas prices jumped 10X in the daily market. You say that they are hedged? Hedges do not matter during Operational Flow Order(OFO)/Force Majeur/Curtailment pipeline events and they are exposed to the daily market. (I do this for a living)
By andkenneth 2026-03-1421:263 reply This is a psyop to recruit more Australians I'm sure of it
By seriocomic 2026-03-150:58 I was thinking the same, but (and correct me if I'm wrong), the timezone means this is only really useful between 11pm and 5am AEST? - EDIT: yup - I _completely_ missed the "outside" of those US hours. yay!
By marak830 2026-03-151:35 I was thinking the same thing. Would be interesting to see their usage over timezones.
By leothelion_ 2026-03-1422:07 Can't complain honestly!
