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pjerem • yesterday at 9:28 PM • 7 replies • view on HN

I don’t agree. I tried the $20 Claude Plan and was able to reach the 5 hour limit in maybe one prompt.


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jamiejquinn • yesterday at 9:59 PM

Would you mind sharing that prompt? I'm struggling to even hit 10% of my Claude quota! I don't want more work out of it TBH but I'm interested...

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SwellJoe • yesterday at 10:01 PM

Yeah, the $20 Claude plan is stingier than one might like, but not as stingy as Kimi. I think the best $20 subscription deal these days is probably from Google, now that Gemini 4 Argon exists and is an acceptably high quality model for coding. It's got quite generous usage and includes some other Google account upgrades (though I know some people don't use their regular account for Google AI for fear of account suspension or whatever, so the extra storage and other account upgrades are not a useful thing). I can use it pretty heavily without ever running into caps. The $20 ChatGPT plan used to be similarly generous, but no more.

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DaSHacka • yesterday at 11:03 PM

That's surprising, I had the exact same experience as GP. I dropped my Kimi sub this month, but I'm keeping claude because I can use Opus 4.8 basically endlessly. Even Opus 5.5 doesn't drain the usage that much, though I rarely use it because it refuses to do anything cyber-related.

dzink • yesterday at 10:34 PM

It is a LOT more efficient on claude code. Takes forever to run out of credits, and a whole lot of useful code gets generated. The web Ui reconstructs code while claude code just tweaks it.

arcanemachiner • yesterday at 10:42 PM

How long ago was this? The amount of usage they give you for a given plan seems to change over time, and the Claude limits seem to be more favourable recently.

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fastball • yesterday at 11:23 PM

Was the prompt "Re-implement Call of Duty 4, make no mistakes"?

epolanski • yesterday at 10:51 PM

I had the same experience with OpenAI's 20$ one, literally one prompt to do some code analysis, it didn't even complete it.

And that was 6.1 sol xhigh, not astra max..