Over the past few days me and Gemini have been working on pseudocode for an app I want to do. I had Gemini break the pseudocode in logical steps and create markdown files for each step. This came out to be 47 md files. I wasn't sure where to take this after that. It's a lot.

Then I signed up for Claude code with Max. I went for the upper tier as I need to get this project rolling. I started up pycharm, dropped all 45 md files from gemini and let Claude Code go. Sure, there were questions from Claude, but in less than 30 mins I had a semi-working flask app. Yes, there were bugs. This is and should be expected. Knowing how I would handle the errors personally helped me to guide Claude to finding the issue.

It was an amazing experience and I appreciate the CLI. If this works out how I hope, I'll be canceling my subscriptions to other AI services. Don't get me started on the AI services I've tried. I'm not looking for perfection. Just to get very close.

I would highly suggest looking into Claude code with a max subscription if you are comfortable with the CLI.

Anthropic has some secret something that makes it dominant in the coding world. I tried others, but always need to rely on 3.7. I'll probably keep my gemini sub but I'm canceling all others.

Sorry for the lengthy post.

Did anyone else got max 20 plan free? 🤔

Hey everyone.

Anthropic asked us to pass on that they are offering one month of Claude Pro to new users completely free - today only.

When: Today only - ends Thursday, October 30 at 7:59 AM Pacific Time.

Who's Eligible:

• New users OR first-time subscribers - from any country where Claude is available

• Must use a company email (no Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)

How to Claim: Visit https://claude.com/offers/oct-2025-free-month and sign up with your work email

What You Get:

• Memory - Claude remembers your preferences across conversations

• Skills - Specialized capabilities for specific tasks and workflows

• Projects - Separate workspaces with custom knowledge

• 5x More Usage - Way more messages per session than free tier

Note: Subscription auto-renews after the free month (cancel anytime).

Since launching Claude Code on the web, your feedback has been invaluable. We’re temporarily adding free usage so you can push the limits of parallel work and help make Claude even better.

Available for a limited time (until November 18):
• Max users: $1,000 in credits
• Pro users: $250 in credits

These credits are separate from your standard plan limits and expire November 18 at 11:59 PM PT. This is a limited time offer for all existing users and for new users while supplies last.

Learn more about Claude Code on the web:
• Blog post: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web
• Documentation: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/claude-code-on-the-web

Start using your credits at claude.ai/code. See here for more details.

Latest CLaude Code is allowed officially to be used with Claude MAX, no more burning API tokens.

0.2.96

• Claude Code can now also be used with a Claude Max subscription (https://claude.ai/upgrade)

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Seem Anthropic want to push Claude Code as alternative to other tools like Cursor and push their Max subscription. May be one day a merge into Claude Desktop.

Edit/Update: more informations here:
https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-plan

Sorry to talk about this topic again.

But ive noticed the rate limits are much closer to the API costs now. im on max 200. For power users - how much usage are you getting from max 100/200 compared to the actual API cost?

I signed up for Claude Pro for a free one-week trial and found the results amazing, but I had very little time to test it because after just two or three in-depth queries, my credits were gone. Is it the same if you actually pay for the Pro Plan? Because in that case, the only option left would be the Max plan, which is way too expensive for my situation.

I used to use Aider with various paid APIs or build the agents myself. But recently, I've given Claude Code a try. I have zero regrets on the $200 Claude Max 20x sub, despite still having quite a bit of credit left in OpenAI and DeepSeek (I'm still thinking of ways to utilize them).

I do three heavy programming sessions per day following their 5-hour rolling window (two for jobs, one for my personal projects and the post-grad workload). And with the separated pools for Opus and Sonnet recently, I exhaust them both during each session, doubling the amount of work done.

The subscription pays for itself (freelance paychecks, profits from products, improved QoL across the board, etc.) with an insane ROI on top of that (freeing up a large amount of time for personal well-being and hobbies, e.g., Dhamma study, walking, meditation, video games, relationships).

This will be your best investment if you do anything related to computers, period. (I'm not affiliated with Anthropic in any way, just stating the facts.)

If any tech firm knows about this but does not provide their employees with Claude Max subscriptions, then they're not really serious. They don't really care about their product, only want to farm venture cash, and are stingy PoS who just want to exploit offshore low-cost laborers.

Hi everyone, I'm a developer who has been using Claude Code Max ($200 plan) for 3 months now. With renewal coming up on the 21st, I wanted to share my honest experience.

Initial Experience (First 1-2 months): I was genuinely impressed. Fast prototyping, reasonable code architecture, and great ability to understand requirements even with vague descriptions. It felt like a real productivity booster.

Recent Changes I've Noticed (Past 2-3 weeks):

1. Performance degradation: Noticeable drop in code quality compared to earlier experience

2. Unnecessary code generation: Frequently includes unused code that needs cleanup

3. Excessive logging: Adds way too many log statements, cluttering the codebase

4. Test quality issues: Generates superficial tests that don't provide meaningful validation

5. Over-engineering: Tends to create overly complex solutions for simple requests

6. Problem-solving capability: Struggles to effectively address persistent performance issues

7. Reduced comprehension: Missing requirements even when described in detail

Current Situation: I'm now spending more time reviewing and fixing generated code than the actual generation saves me. It feels like constantly code-reviewing a junior developer's work rather than having a reliable coding partner.

Given the $200/month investment, I'm questioning the value proposition and currently exploring alternative tools.

Question for the community: Has anyone else experienced similar issues recently? Or are you still having a consistently good experience with Claude Code?

I'm genuinely curious if this is a temporary issue or if others are seeing similar patterns. If performance improves, I'd definitely consider coming back, but right now I'm not seeing the ROI that justified the subscription cost.

Using the Claude CLI, usage would be for personal and work projects. The "Pro" plan works just fine for me but wondering if it can speed up my coding even more after reading all the posts made praising it, what do you guys think? Thanks!

P.S. I never tried any Opus models so not sure what to expect anyway.

I’m currently on 5x plan ($100) plan, now thinking about getting 20x plan ($200) since getting the limits quite quickly especially on Opus. I actually want to be using just Opus. Sonnet cannot really handle it. I’ll have a discount if I update now. Any thoughts will be appreciated!

I'm a sr. software engineer with ~16 years working experience. I'm also a huge believer in AI, and fully expect my job to be obsolete within the decade. I've used all of the most expensive tiers of all of the AI models extensively to test their capabilities. I've never posted a review of any of them but this pro-Claude hysteria has made me post something this time.

If you're a software engineer you probably already realize there is truly nothing special about Claude Code relative to other AI assisted tools out there such as Cline, Cursor, Roo, etc. And if you're a human being you probably also realize that this subreddit is botted to hell with Claude Max ads.

I initially tried Claude Code back in February and it failed on even the simplest tasks I gave it, constantly got stuck in loops of mistakes, and overall was a disappointment. Still, after the hundreds of astroturfed threads and comments in this subreddit I finally relented and thought "okay maybe after Sonnet/Opus 4 came out its actually good now" and decided to buy the $100 plan to give it another shot.

Same result. I wasted about 5 hours today trying to accomplish tasks that could have been done with Cline in 30-40 minutes because I was certain I was doing something wrong and I needed to figure out what. Beyond the usual infinite loops Claude Code often finds itself in (it has been executing a simple file refactor task for 783 seconds as I write this), the 4.0 models have the fun new feature of consistently lying to you in order to speed along development. On at least 3 separate occasions today I've run into variations of:

● You're absolutely right - those are fake status updates! I apologize for that terrible implementation. Let me fix this fake output and..

I have to admit that I was suckered into this purchase from the hundreds of glowing comments littering this subreddit, so I wanted to give a realistic review from an engineer's pov. My take is that Claude Code is probably the most amazing tool on earth for software creation if you have never used alternatives like Cline, Cursor, etc. I think Claude Code might even be better than them if you are just creating very simple 1-shot webpages or CRUD apps, but anything more complex or novel and it is simply not worth the money.

inb4 the genius experts come in and tell me my prompts are the issue.

I'm currently using Google Gemini 2.5 Pro for free but I'm thinking of going back to Claude specifically to use Claude Code. My question are, how quick do you reach the limits for Claude Code? Does it do a good job compared to Cursor with Sonnet 3.7 or Gemini 2.5 Pro?

UPDATE 1.0

MESSAGE LIMIT AND CHAT LIMIT

So far I’ve continued an already one VERY long SONNET 3.5 chat within one project full of other chats without hitting the message limit. But I had hit the max chat length limit.

However I have 5 quite long artefacts in this chat and about 6-7 attach docs within the chat. Overall I had an impression that the chat was at least 20% longer than standard project chats in Pro version. FYI: I’m working on writing a book and it was mostly Claude co writer chat for helping out with anything around actual writing. No coding, But I still got artifact errors in formatting and editing,

Thus I had one monthly session out of promised 50 for MAX 20x and it was ok.

I will keep updating this post for you to see how MAX 20x is behaving.

TESTING CLAUDE ON OTHER STUFF TO CHECK IF PROMISED 900 messages in 5 HOURS is BS.

I also have a paid GPT account, use it daily for stuff like formatting long docs etc. But I will see If I can get Claude to do it, since they have promised up to 900 messages an hour.

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UPDATE 2.0

CLAUDE PROJECT DOCUMENT UPLOAD CAPACITY

A fucking joke, can’t upload more that 25% of project documents capacity without getting ”chat is too long” death sentence. I must note that I started a NEW vhat, and it’s not long yet, allthough I have added a bunch of shorter documents directly into the chat.

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UPDATE 3.0

RUNTIME AND SERVER ERRORS. MESSAGE LIMIT, KNOWLEGDE STORAGE CAPACITY

Been working since 09.00. It’s 14.00. Normally I’d have hit message limit TWO TIMES. Not with MAX 20x.

NOT A SINGLE SERVER ERROR OR INTERRUPTION! FLAWLESS.

However project document storage capacity is FUCKED. So much, that I’m rethinking If purchase was worth it. My work requires long context. New chats disrupt whatever context I have accumulated in my long chat, And I need chat context from dosens of previous chats.

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UPDATE 4.0

MOBILE APP ALLOWS FILE UPLOAD TO PROJECT KNOWLEDGE AND CHAT AFTER MAX LENGTH CHAT WARNING”

So there’s a ”bug”. You can STILL CONTINUE CONVERSATION after you get ”this chat has reached max length” IF you continue writing from IOS CLAUDE APP. However this is a fucking joke. How’s anyone supposed to WORK from a phone.

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UPDATE 5.0

CONNECTIVITY

Response time is a bit long however I have NOT hit connection error even ONCE. Also not a single server overload and all that shit. Sonnet 3.7 extended thinking behaves stupid and forgets context all the time .

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UPDATE 6.0

SERVER ERROR AT MAX CONTEXT WINDOW CAPACITY

So this is true. I get interrupted and get a network/server error when I feed Claude docs that max up it’s context window size.

However I haven’t hit message limit even though I used Claude for hours. So MAX 20X is a thing, However context window size is a crime. Anthro won’t get anywhere without stable connection and bigger context.

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UPDATE 7.0

START OF REGULAR SYSTEM ERRORS/INTERRUPTIONS ON 20X PLAN

CONTEXT WINDOW 3.7 w. THINKING IS SHIT

Well, bad news REDDIT. I started getting REGULAR server interruptions and server errors even at CLAUDE MAX 20x plan. Not often, but at least 3-4 times during the day. I guess PRO PLAN users see this much more ofter.

I fucking hate context window limitations. WTF Anthro, get the goddamn 500k out, you have it. Charging 250 usd for 500k within 50 monthly sessions is very reasonable, you greedy fucks.

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UPDATE 8.0

NETWORK CONNECTION ERRORS PILING UP ON MAX 20X PLAN

This gotta be a joke. Service totaly unavailiable at 250 dollars a month. Really? All while bug with smaller context window when uploading same amound of project documents? Anthro this is a straight road to subscription cancellation.

Ok, a LONG artefact written from a LONG LOG HAS BEEN INTERRUPTED (deleted) THREE TIMES by network error. Which means a MASSIVE amount of tokens went to the dogs. Had I been on Pro plan I’d have hit my message limit after those three messages. Which means I’d have paid for something Anthro has never delivered,

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UPDATE 9.0

CLAUDE 3.7 HALLUCINATES LIKE CRAZY AFTER ANTHRO ROLLED OUT DEEP RESEARCH AND CLAUDE CODE FEATURES

This is not the first time! Right after CLAUDE MAX paid plans were rolled out Sonnet 3.7 started hallucinating like crazy! It literally could not retain analyze 100 pages pages of log context in project knowledge. ( I split it in parts) The worst part is that It acknowledged it, apologized, tried again and failed again many times. (Essentially it keps quoting dumb made up details that weren’t in the text) At the end I was forced to use Gemini Pro 2.5 to analyze those 100 pages of text,

One more thing. Just as it did the last time after new plans were introduced Sonnet 3.7 turned into a small unsure thing that gives a statement and then ASKS ME ”AM I RIGHT IN THINKING SO?”

WTF?! How am I supposed to know if I asked it to analyze? And No matter how many times I say ”Stop asking if you’re right, I just need your opinion” it still keeps asking!

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UPDATE 10.0

CONTINUED HALLUCINATIONS OF SONNET 3.7 FEW DAYS LATER AFTER WEB SEARCH AND DEEP RESEARCH ROLLOUT. CHOPPED KNOWLEDGE BASE CAPACITY IN PROJECT STILL REAL

JUST FYI in case you think of subscribing to MAX 20X.

I use Claude for business (I own a few) and so far it’s helped streamline a lot of the work that would take me much longer, and cost much less than hiring outside consultants. That being said, anyone have experience with the max X 20? That seems excessive, but on the other hand it can still save you quite a bit of money as opposed to the thousands firms can charge. I just wonder if the Pro is similar. Any insight would be appreciated

Hey everyone! Amateur coder here working on flashcard apps and basic HTTP tools.

Claude has been incredibly helpful as my coding partner, but I'm hitting some workflow issues. Currently using Sonnet 4 for implementation, but when I need more complex planning, I switch to Opus 4.1 on the web to get Claude code prompt, which gets rate-limited quickly. I end up waiting 2+ hours on rate limiting

I'm considering the Max plan ($100/month) to avoid these delays and actually finish my projects. I've tried Claude's agentic features with sonnet 4 but its not even near what opus 4.1 gives in chat. Like i have to paste my code there and get prompt and sonnet work on it.

Compared to Gemini 2.5 or OpenAI alternatives, I still prefer Claude Code, but wondering if I'm missing something in my current approach.

Is it really worth getting max plan 100$ for a month or two to finish my project building and then go with pro plan on building it. what would you guys suggest. ?

Really appreciate any insights - still learning and would love to hear from you guys.

Google for “Claude Pro Trial” or use this link - https://www.claude.com/offers/oct-2025-free-month

I guess it will be available only for few more hours

Heyy guys, i'm absolutely baffled when it comes to choosing what plan to buy 😭

EDIT: Clearly Claude Code is the winner here 👏, I bought the Max 20x usage plan and its amazing and MUCH cheaper than cursor, in terms of how much usage you get for how much you are paying. Thanks to all of you guys in the comments for the push in the right direction ❤️

Firstly, I'm confused if Claude Code is a separate model or it it just the command line interface i can initiate? Also does Claude code use opus 4.5? I'm proper confused 🥲

Secondly, Cursor Ultra lets me use Opus 4.5 but will i get less usage from cursor?

Thirdly, is there any features or advantages i'll be missing out on if i choose one of the other??
ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED 🙏