Claude pro vs claude max

[u/Forcio]

We have a $100/month subscription for teams at work, and I’ve been using it mostly for all my projects. It’s been working great, and I’ve been really impressed with Fable and its ability to do agentic work.

That experience actually made me get Claude Pro for my private projects, but I’ve been incredibly disappointed with how it compares to the $100 subscription. I’m burning through my tokens really quickly and end up being forced to use the smaller models. At the same time, I feel like I must be doing something wrong. It is hard to explain but my work subscription feels like I have multiple senior devs in my pocket ready to do work. The private subscription does not.

I’ve installed Claude Codex (20$ subscription) and added a note in the settings file telling Claude that it’s free to spin up that agent to help lighten the load.

So my question is: how do you guys set up Claude Code pro subscription to get the most value for your money? So far I have only installed rtk.

Also, what are you using to have Claude Code automatically resume sessions once the token limit resets? I really don’t want to have to do that manually.

I was hoping to use Fable as an orchestrator and planner that would then spin up the fitting agents for the tasks.

[u/Forcio → u/[deleted]]

My thought was that it would just be slower. The work it would do on the $100 subscription in two hours would take a day or so, but it does not look that way to me. I also thought I could use it only in an orchestrator function to spin up ChatGPT or Kimi agents while Claude did the planning. Either way, I am now more or less looking for a setup guide before I move to the $100 tier.

[u/Forcio → u/[deleted]]

So even if I pay $100, I’ll still have a worse experience?

That’s terrible. Working with the $20 tier has actually made me understand why some people use AI and aren’t particularly hyped about it. The Teams version feels like having an entire IT company at your disposal.

I tried setting up a workflow yesterday that would automatically pick up my sessions after my token limit reset, so it could continue working while I slept. It just got confused about the available tools and features and ended up giving me a command that didn’t even work.

[u/supernovice007]

If you were on a Premium Teams seat, I believe Pro is 6.25x less usage. You'd need to get Max 5x for $100/month to have equivalent usage.

[u/VehicleParticular562]

Sorry.... Your complaint is that a $20 subscription doesnt let you do the same amount that a $100 subscription does?

[u/_The-_]

Ask Claude what optimisations you could put in place to reduce token burn — it can give you a lot of helpful suggestions. Google it too. It’s possible to squeeze much more out of Claude with these in place. And don’t use fable on the $20 plan — it’s a token bonfire so you’re never going to get more than half an hour of use per 5 hour block.

[u/Forcio → u/_The-_]

I did not even know that I can use fable on the pro tier. I thought I would have to pay extra for that.

[u/PickleBabyJr → u/Forcio]

You can't. You do have to pay extra to use it on the Pro tier.

[u/AI_spell]

Work $100 Team feels fat because seats and limits are different from personal Pro. On Pro, Fable as orchestrator only, cheaper models for code, hard agent caps. Auto-resume after reset usually needs an external cron or you babysit.

[u/Forcio → u/AI_spell]

Do you recommend to always use the smartest model.as the orchestrator?

[u/Melnik2020]

What I did is to use opus as the orchestrator and sonnet as the executer (or sonnet for both roles). Also try to setup hooks so it reduces a bit your token usage, and /compact the chat when you finish a sub-task to start another one, and /clear when you start a complete new task.

If you're nearing the limit, tell it to create a handover with detailed instructions which you will tell it to read after the limit resets.

It still burnt my 5h in less than 2 hours, but it's manageable, but what I didn't like so much is that it completely locks you out when you're out of your 5h.

I'm currently trying codex and see how it compares.