Claude has us locked in right now while they subsidize cheap usage to get us subscribed and dependent on their monthly plans.

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sausagefeet a day ago | parent | next [-]

It depends on what "us" means. I am switched off of Claude almost entirely now except for background things where I want to abuse my subsidized account. Otherwise, OpenRouter + open weight models are my daily drivers. It takes a bunch of work but I'm doing it for roughly a max20 account cost, a bit more, but it's not like the difference is huge. They are less capable but I've modified my workflow to mitigate that as much as possible, and I can still do things when Anthropic goes down.

	▲	Alwayshasbeeb a day ago \| parent [-]
		What models are you using? I was satisfied with deepseek v4.1 while ai was still using my brain, before being time-pressured into shipping something I don't understand and now I feel I need stronger models to steer it. Kimi K3 or the closed models through openrouter is too expensive compared to subsidized plans though so I'm using a $20 sub for light reviews/consultations.

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p_l a day ago | parent | prev [-]

As temporary backup, one can use claude models hosted on GCP - my understanding is that those don't depend on platform.claude.com and should be available even if main claude platform is dead