> Mask off completely and just make it completely usage based for everyone.

you can already pay per token by giving Claude Code an API key, if you want.

thus, the subtext of every complaint on this thread is that people want "unlimited" and they want their particular use to be under whatever the cap is, and they want it to be cheap.

No, I'm explicitly not saying that! I'm saying that I'd really like the rolling window to be less than a full week, because that's such a long time to wait if I exhaust the limit!