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for many of our users that are CC users they actually don't hit the $250 number most months so its actually cheaper to use consumption in many use cases surprisingly
detroitcoder on Hacker News
biggest users spend ~2,000 a month
In the thread “Claude Opus 4.5”, replying to this comment
Helped: Consumption-based usage avoids rate limits for heavy users.
Got in the way: Subscription plans caused rate limiting for heavy users.
… I considered trying to have them default to subscription and then switch to consumption when they get rate limited, but I didn't want to burden them with that yet. However for many of our users that are CC users they actually don't hit the $250 number most months so its actually cheaper to use consumption in many use cases surprisingly.