There are many people who quickly hit the limits of the $200/month plan. I hit the limits of the $20/month plan in less than a day. So I never tried the $200/month plan but I suspect you are wrong.

Also, if you sign up for Anthropic’s feedback program you get a 30% reduction on API usage.

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sothatsit a day ago | parent [-]

Especially if you hit the rate limits, you should be on the Max plan. It will save you at least $2000/month if you hit the rate-limits on the $200/month plan, and then you can go and spend however much more you want on the API after hitting the rate limits. There are many people showing how they use 3, 4, or even 5 thousand dollars of API credits a month using the Max plan. You're just going to pay those extra thousands of dollars for the sake of it?!

It is insanity to spend thousands of dollars a month when you could be spending hundreds for the exact same product.

It's an absolute no-brainer. And it's not even "either or". You can use both the plan and fallback to the API when you get rate-limited. A 30% discount on tokens cannot match the 90% discount on tokens you get using the plan. The math is so unbelievably in favour of the plan.

There are probably people who are not heavy users where the plan may not make sense. But for heavy users, you are burning piles of your own money by not using Anthropic's Max plan. You only need a week of moderate usage a month and already the plan will have paid for itself compared to paying for API credits directly.

	▲	sothatsit 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh and btw, the rate-limits reset every 4 hours. So, I don't know what you are talking about with "hitting your rate-limits in the first day". That doesn't make much sense to say when your rate-limits reset multiple times within one day, nevermind between days. Maybe that's the key piece of information you're missing where you mistakenly thought the rate-limits applied to the whole month, when in fact they apply to a 4-hour window.