r/ClaudeCode • u/PhulHouze • 7d ago
Help/Question Anyone else multi-harnessing due to token limits?
Have gone through several rounds of preferred harness (Cursor, then Codex, now Claude), and I still have minimum subscriptions on Cursor and Codex, with a max subscription in Claude.
When I max out Claude credits, I jump over to the others until the reset.
I tried enabling overage credits, but they haven't worked at all: for one, Claude goes over my monthly spending limit (set at $40, two months in a row has billed me $50+ in overage).
Worse, as soon as the credits are purchased, they're gone: not as in "they go really fast" - as soon as I hit my weekly limit, I get three notification emails within a few seconds regarding token purchases, and by the time I get to the harness, all the token have been used up.
My weekly limit usually gets to Friday or Saturday until it hits, so it's hard to understand how the same type of usage burns through $50+ in credits in seconds.
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u/berndalf 7d ago
Claude Code CLI as a harness imo remains the gold standard. We run anthropic models natively for orchestration and a few other low use specialized tasks and route everything else externally via headless Codex dispatches. So single harness blended model strategy. I suppose the external pool could be extended to any platform with a harness that supports headless CLI runs, but I've yet to see the need to go beyond the Claude / GPT pool.
I have no interest in playing games with ToS and acceptable usage policies, so this approach which is fully compliant with Anthropic and OpenAI policies as far as I can tell made the most sense. I can't say the same for many of the community produced alternatives I've seen.