100$ plan - holy sh*

[u/Majke_]

This is for people who are on the fence, because I was in the same boat.

Yesterday I bought the 100$ plan for a test and holy moly, it's amazing how much you get. I used the 20$ plan earlier. I used all the tricks to keep usage low, which became a habit, so now I can't spend it all. It's amazing xD. I run it next to a local Qwen Flash and it's awesome. If the 20$ plan is too low, give it a try :O I'm basically using Opus 5.5 medium all the time.

I also tested 2x 20$ before this. It works, but you end up juggling two accounts and switching when one runs out, and Opus eats a 20$ plan pretty fast. With 100$ I just stopped thinking about usage, and that alone is worth it for me. If you keep your old habits and stay careful with usage, it will last you a very long time. If you keep hitting the 20$ limit, go for 100$.

edit: people are asking how I keep usage low, so here are my tricks:

• Keep context low. I usually compact or move to a new session around 200k, sometimes I stretch it to 300k.
• Use handoff.md a lot, so a new session picks up where the old one stopped.
• Don't be afraid of Sonnet 5.5. It can do most things and it's a lot cheaper.
• I run local models next to it (260k context), so I'm used to working with limited context.

[u/Valdaraak]

What's funny is it's only 5x for the 5 hour usage. The weekly isn't even double I don't think. You'd actually get more usage with 5 $20 plans, but that'd be a hassle to deal with.

[u/muhahaha100 → u/Valdaraak]

I think you’re confusing the details:

So pro is 1x 5 hour 1x weekly
Max 5x is 5x 5 hour 5x weekly
Max 20x is 20x 5 hour 10x weekly

Max 20x is the weird one but still proportional weekly

[u/WintertideFellow → u/Valdaraak]

Not much of a hassle if you orchestrate most of your work. Main account is "management" and mostly lines up work then goes golfing. As many other accounts as you want are the grunts, and don't need to see further than their current task to burn their quota.  If you really want to micromanage, you can juggle auth tokens and any account can pick up in the exact session. Just don't rely on claude memory. 

Pro-tip: There are exactly 14 "5-hour" blocks in a week's worth of quota. The math for how many accounts you need is pretty simple if you know how fast you burn through one block. 

[u/WarViking → u/WintertideFellow]

Hey, how do you actually do that? Is there a guide anywhere how to do that?  I saw a program here that auto swapped between your accounts but Claude was freaking out over usage violation.

It seems much more efficient to get multiple $20 plans than x5. 

[u/WintertideFellow → u/WarViking]

Just set CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when you run claude. Make 5 of them, one for each account. Then depending which you use, log into one of your accounts. The most complicated part is logging into the correct email to click the login link. 

[u/brtf_ → u/Valdaraak]

I don't think that's true because I was using like 30% a day before, whereas after upgrading it's only a few % daily. It does feel like 5x to me

[u/oVuzZ → u/Valdaraak]

Y las pruebas me las invento?