It's probably the same, but I feel like I get more daily usage out of the monthly plan than the API. More on reddit.com

console.anthropic.com. The api has a website you can use More on reddit.com

I give it enough context that I’m used to giving human level developers and it’s been quite useful. But if you’re new to programming you probably don’t have those docs in mind to give to language model. Since you are learning, try asking GPT4 to write you specs and standard code requirements like a CONTRIBUTION.md and USAGE.md and README.md, etc. Especially a CHANGELOG.md Once you have these specs sorted out with GPT4o, saved them as a file and upload them to Claude. Then you can work out issues with GPT4o and when you have alignment on how to solve the problem, then instruct Claude to execute the plan. There’s no reason you couldn’t do this in two different Claude threads by the way — one being a product manager and the other being a software engineer— however revisions and debugging is a chore with Claude due to the message limits. It’s much more efficient to work out problems with ChatGPT and then go execute on Claude.ai. You can use the CHANGELOG.md to help communicate updates and give context between the two services. As I don’t know empirically if this helps but I always start with: “Using the chain-of-thought of a Engineer” and then list out details about the files I want it to check.” Here’s a simple example Using the same chain-of-thought as a Game Developer, you’ll work on a simple 2D platformer game using Python. Key skills: Python, Pygame, basic understanding of game loops and event handling. Responsibilities: - Develop core game mechanics (e.g., player movement, collision detection) - Implement level design with simple platforms and obstacles Review: `Game_Design_Document.md` and `Code_Structure.md` for guidelines. Ask questions after reviewing. We’ll update `SPEC-001.md` based on playtesting feedback. Main task: Create `Level_1.py` with fully functional game mechanics. Hope this helps. More on reddit.com

We don't know exactly how files are dealt with and sent to the AI, because it's all server-side. I imagine they will do some scraping of the textual data from a PDF or Word document, for example, before adding the textual data in to the prompt. Images must go through some kind of interpretation layer -- it's not clear whether Claude can natively deal with image data, or whether it uses a tool + OCR to give it a verbal description of the image. With the API, you would need to implement a tool to do these things and add the retrieved text to the prompt. Or else just use copy-paste manually. More on reddit.com