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Anthropic
anthropic.com › news › claude-opus-4-5
Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
If you’re a developer, simply use claude-opus-4-5-20251101 via the Claude API. Pricing is now $5/$25 per million tokens—making Opus-level capabilities accessible to even more users, teams, and enterprises. Alongside Opus, we’re releasing updates to the Claude Developer Platform, Claude ...
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Anthropic
anthropic.com › claude › opus
Claude Opus 4.5
Pricing for Opus 4.5 starts at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, with up to 90% cost savings with prompt caching and 50% savings with batch processing. To learn more, check out our pricing page. To get started, use claude-opus-4-5 via the Claude API.
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ClaudeLog
claudelog.com › home › claude code pricing
Claude Code Pricing | ClaudeLog
Complete Claude AI price breakdown including Pro (from $17/month annually) vs Max (from $100/month) subscription plans, API costs, and usage limits.
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CometAPI
cometapi.com › github-copilot-cli-vs-claude-code
GitHub Copilot CLI vs Claude code: Which is more suitable for you? - CometAPI - All AI Models in One API
October 5, 2025 - Using Claude Code via CometAPI will save more costs. The API provided by CometAPI is 20% off the official price and is updated with the latest model by the official.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/claudeai › claude ai vs api usage costs
r/ClaudeAI on Reddit: Claude AI vs API Usage Costs
April 11, 2025 -

I’ve been using Claude AI for the past couple of weeks mainly for coding and finding it better by far than chatGPT

One annoying thing was the constant running out of usage, and today I noticed you can up to higher tiers which I did.

However as my work is getting more complex using the web interface just isn’t practically and more and need to move to using it within vscode, which I’ve just been too lazy to do.

I went to do that and realised you can’t used your ClaudeAI account and need the API account instead which is annoying.

So my question is what’s usage costs like when comparing them?

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Are you using an MCP server to let you work directly in your local directory, or are you still just using the web app or desktop app in isolation? If you're not using an MCP server, I would set one of those up and try it first before getting into a real IDE. Check out the filesystem MCP or DesktopCommander MCP. You install them simply by editing a config file.
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Have been a dev for more than a decade and moved away from it until I recently gave a go at vscode x cline. Using open router (meaning a 5% surcharge) on different models, the cost through the API is definitely high. Right now I can go through 20$ a day easy and I am refraining because of the cost. If you know what you are doing and optimise your prompt to only design decisions and specific small scale debugging needs, then you can get out of it with a lot less investment. Other models are pretty interesting too, Gemini 2.5 being free is a must try, it definitely does not compare to Claude for coding, but it's free, if you are cost conscious this is a strong alternative with a lot of human intervention (so slower) There are models better than Gemini which are still cheaper than Claude but then you would have to test them to see what their limits are and when to use them for the best savings. At the end of the day you are going to balance cost vs speed. If what you are working on is not valuable or has a low ROI and your own hourly cost is low (like personal per project) then you should optimise your costs. If you are building something meant to, or already making money, and you are investing in it, Claude expensive cost is still a win given how fast it will get you to your goal.
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Laozhang
blog.laozhang.ai › ai-coding › claude-code-pricing-2025
Claude Code Pricing Guide 2025: Terminal-First AI Coding Assistant Costs – LaoZhang-AI
GitHub Copilot’s $10 monthly pricing positions it as an accessible autocomplete enhancement, providing inline suggestions that accelerate coding without fundamentally changing development workflows. Cursor’s $20 monthly subscription offers a complete IDE replacement with AI deeply integrated ...
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Northflank
northflank.com › blog › claude-rate-limits-claude-code-pricing-cost
Claude Code: Rate limits, pricing, and alternatives | Blog — Northflank
For teams running agents, IDEs, devtools, or anything programmatic, Claude pricing is both expensive and unstable. Rate limits are restrictions that API providers implement to control request volume within specific timeframes.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/claudeai › want to use claude with github integration for just $18?
r/ClaudeAI on Reddit: Want to use Claude with Github Integration for just $18?
September 5, 2024 -

Claude today launched Github integration with 500K context window, however it is only available with Enterprise plan (needs contacting sales).

Bind AI is a Claude alternative with native Github integration:

  • Sync your entire Github codebase

  • Up to 1 million tokens ingested, and relevant embeddings retrieved with RAG

  • Use with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o and other models.

Here's some more info on what's available:
https://www.getbind.co/claude-github-integration-3-5-sonnet

Disclaimer: I work with Bind, and sharing this as a more accessible option for enterprise features.

Find elsewhere
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GitHub
github.com › philipp-spiess › claude-code-costs
GitHub - philipp-spiess/claude-code-costs
Analyze your Claude Code conversation costs with interactive visualizations.
Starred by 180 users
Forked by 15 users
Languages   JavaScript
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GitHub
github.com › codingworkflow › claude-code-api
GitHub - codingworkflow/claude-code-api
A simple, focused OpenAI-compatible API gateway for Claude Code with streaming support. Leverage the Claude Code SDK use mode.
Starred by 217 users
Forked by 30 users
Languages   Python 98.3% | Makefile 1.4% | Shell 0.3%
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/claudeai › confused about claude code, pricing, and api access
r/ClaudeAI on Reddit: Confused about Claude Code, pricing, and API access
August 31, 2025 -

Sorry if this is a dumb question.. but I'm pretty confused and haven't been able to find clear info on this.

I have a Claude subscription, which says it includes Claude Code. But I've had to pay specifically for API credits in order to use CC inside Cline/VSCode?

I've been using Replit to build an app, hit my usage limit extremely fast, and read online that using something like Claude Code inside Replit or with Cline/VSCode would be a cheaper and better option. I've seen several threads/videos online of people saying you can do this and Claude Code has generous usage limits per 5 hours.. but my experience so far with CC/Cline/VSCode has been that I paid for $5 in credits, and used up $2 in credits after a couple of prompts where I barely did anything. Am I missing something? I'm v new to this stuff with zero coding experience so apologies if I'm missing something obvious.

Can I not just pay for a CC subscription and use it till I hit my hourly/monthly/whatever limits? Or do I need to literally pay per prompt when I'm using it via API?

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Claude
claude.com › pricing
Pricing | Claude
Explore Claude pricing plans and API costs. Choose from Free, Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise options to get started with Claude.
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Anthropic
anthropic.com › claude-code
Claude Code - AI coding agent for terminal & IDE | Claude
Claude Code is included with Team plan premium seats. Includes self-serve seat management and additional usage at standard API rates, plus access to both Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5. ... Per person / month. Minimum 5 members.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/claudeai › [ removed by moderator ]
Shocked with Claude API cost : r/ClaudeAI
July 26, 2025 - Claude API used to cost me $50 a day until I signed up for the MAX plan. You are right to assume most of these startups are losing money. Anthropic lost about $5 billion last year, roughly.
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GitHub
github.com › topics › claude-api
claude-api · GitHub Topics · GitHub
CRS-自建Claude Code镜像,一站式开源中转服务,让 Claude、OpenAI、Gemini、Droid 订阅统一接入,支持拼车共享,更高效分摊成本,原生工具无缝使用。 · droid crs claude claude-api gemini-cli claude-code codex-cli claude-proxy droid-cli droid2api
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Apidog
apidog.com › blog › claude-api-cost
The Truth About Claude API Pricing (and How to Optimize Your Code to Save Big!)
October 17, 2025 - You pay a slightly higher price to write to the cache, but subsequent reads from the cache are significantly cheaper than reprocessing the original prompt. Batch Processing: If you have a large volume of non-urgent tasks, you can use batch processing to receive a discount on your API calls. This is ideal for offline data analysis, document processing, and other asynchronous workloads. Tool Use (Function Calling): When you use Claude's tool-use capabilities to interact with external tools or APIs, the tokens associated with the tool definitions and the results returned from the tools are counted towards your input and output token usage.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/claudeai › [ removed by moderator ]
Worth It for Claude Code? My Breakdown vs. API Costs
June 7, 2025 - $200 or heck even if it was $300-500... and no monitoring API usage, CC is mindblowing. This is my experience over the last few months. I prior used Cursor at like $20/mo and it was pretty good, often very cool.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/claudeai › [ removed by moderator ]
Claude Pro vs. API: Which is more cost-effective for daily ...
May 27, 2024 - How the heck are they offering the same deal without limits? Doesn't add up to me. ... The catch is that this is an introductory price offer, they reserve the right to cancel this rate and revert it to 39.99 per month after the year is up.