Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

Would be better if they simply made it free for open source developers. I can barely justify spending time on my hobby projects. If I paid for this, I'd be paying to work for them since they're using our data for training.

I suspect that any GPU cycle not spent on inference will just be dedicated to training (which as I understand it can “soak up” essentially unlimited compute at constant value per token), and I’d not expect to see time-based billing until that changes.

Hard to justify? 20/month for like 5x output is a great deal (be it Claude or Codex or whatever), even if it lasts only 2-3 hours per day.

I canceled my plan today and wrote my reason as: now that I have a job again I don’t have the time or needs for the pro plan. If there was a $5 a month option, I would gladly take it to make use of Opus for my rare side ideas.

You’re not using Claude Code?

the $20 pro plan would also have double offpeak limits - just set it to sonnet and you'll get a reasonable level of output

A $50-per-week Codex Pro/Claude Max plan would be perfect for solo gamedevs/open-source devs who have existing code that would benefit from an occasional review pass or subsystem experiments/brainstorming with the most powerful models, but don't need to use one for a whole month.

Isn't Co-Pilot tied to VsCode?

Claude Pro is $20/month.

Set up an API key and use that.

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