Before the doomers come in, you get $200 in API credits every month for claude -p usage. Usage counts against those API credits.

This is a nothing burger.

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ramoz 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is much of a something burger for users who actively use `claude -p` under their subscription. Users will have to do their own math, but that 200 could come and go quite fast and then you're hitting normal API rates versus what you had previously been hitting.

https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/2054682882753597603?s=20

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solenoid0937 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, but if you spend that many tokens you're probably a pretty big net loss for the company anyways. No company will subsidize that level of compute for you indefinitely.

	▲	ramoz 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yea that's fine and understandable. But like I said, this is something for those users. I launch many review processes locally with `claude -p`

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gcr 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You're not understanding the difference between API billing and subscirption billing.

Subscription usage refills every five hours. API billing doesn't.

	▲	Shadowmist 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Before we got $0 for API usage and banned if caught trying to use a subscription for API stuff, but now there is monthly credit for API.