Currently my main AI tool develop with is cursor. Within the subscription I can use it unlimited, although I get slower responses after a while.

I tried Claude Code a few times with 5 dollars credit each time. After a few minutes the 5 dollar is gone.

I don't mind paying the 100 or even 200 for the max, if I can be sure that I van code full time the whole month. If I use credits, I'd probably end up with a 3000 dollar bill.

What are your experiences as full time developers?

So what is the verdict on usage, is it a good deal or great deal?

How aggressively can you use it?

Would love to hear from people who have actually purchased and used the two.

I’m running Claude Code with the Max $200 plan. I used to be able to run a single window for roughly the whole five hours before running out of context. But for the past 2 days, I’ve only gotten about an hour, and then I have to wait 4. My plan hasn’t changed. It’s not an especially large codebase. I’m not doing anything crazy.

Is there some cache that needs to be cleared, or something I should make sure is not in my Claude.md file? Tips/hints/suggestions? At 1 hour out of every 5 this is unusable. :-(

UPDATE: it was a misconfigured hook. When I removed it, everything returned to normal. (Phew!) Lots of useful suggestions in the thread — thanks all!

What are the exact weekly and 5-hour usage limits (in coding hours and request counts) for Claude Code when comparing the Anthropic Max 20× plan vs. a Team Premium seat? I know both have the same 200k token context per request, but I’m looking for concrete numbers on how many coding hours and prompts per window/ per week are actually allowed.

I have been noticing a weird trend that after Opus 4.5 release, every new week my limits are getting used up faster and faster, while my usage was highest after the release (like first 7-8 days) and decreased pretty significantly afterwards. Now I am back to my usual usage of creating docs, tests, benchmarks etc. My weekly usage usually end up at 50-55% and rarely reaches 60%+ . Now I am reaching never before weekly usage limits like 77%(!!!!) with only 36 hours left before reset. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong or if its the same for everyone? I am on the $100 plan and don't use any mcp servers, skills or any other extra stuff either.

I do use agents a lot to look into large codebases and condense relevant information, and also for web searching and researching a topic, but I have been doing this the subagent feature was released. So it's either there's some bug in their recent updates (could be related to that instant compact feature or async agents or something else) or they are intentionally doing this.

EDIT: Adding this as some people are replying with stuff like "Opus drains more" and assuming I don't already know that... I's literally just draining more and more that it is just close to going back to opus 4.1 levels if this keeps going on for 2-3 more weeks. I don't have a problem using sonnet, but my problem with this situation is that they made me feel like Opus 4.5 on default was actually a thing but it was just a psychological manipulation trick to make me want the 'better' model and pay more for it (when already waste 30-50$ every month). I don't like this especially because I have been a customer for a long time, it's disrespectful and manipulative.