Claude Code is now available to Pro plans
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·June 4, 2025mythz
handfuloflight
Augment is also my daily driver. It's absolutely fantastic.
qsort
Seems like it's a "limited" version of the offering though:
> Pro ($20/month): Average users can send approximately 45 messages with Claude every 5 hours, OR send approximately 10-40 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours > Model access: Pro plan subscribers can access Sonnet 4, but won’t be able to use Opus 4 with Claude Code
Most importantly no Opus 4. Still a great nice to have!
tcdent
I spend well over $20 a day when I am relying heavily on claude code. The $200/mo plan is a steal if the rate limits turn out to be reasonable.
pram
I haven't hit a limit yet on the $200 plan, but did hit the limit quite frequently on the $100 plan FWIW. I can't imagine these Pro limits will be very useful except for very light stuff.
soco
Is it still worth, I mean how's Sonnet vs Opus in terms of daily coding? I'm no asking about token usage, that's too abstract for me, but can it cover the whole codebase, and such.
dagw
how's Sonnet vs Opus in terms of daily coding?
For doing 'boring' day to day things in python I find them more or less the same. For doing non-trivial things in Rust, Opus is much better. Sonnet is much more prone to producing garbage that is just completely wrong in those cases. However I find Gemini 2.5 Pro better than both for harder programming problems.
shmoogy
Gemini is better than Claude in cursor, but in Claude coder I think Sonnet is better than Gemini (in cursor agent, can't use Gemini without the bridge or something else and I don't care about that case, may as well use aider or something similar).
qsort
I guess it depends? It seems a limited offering if you're planning to go all-in on agents, but on the other hand one of the most common complaints about Claude Code is that its costs are unpredictable and weird.
Your mileage may vary dramatically, but I don't think I would subscribe to Pro just for this. It's a "nice to have" on top of my existing Pro subscription whose services are the bulk of the value I'm paying for.
timmg
Doesn't give me an option to log in with Pro. I updated and restarted.
Anyone else have success logging in with Pro? (It says Max or PayAsYouGo).
iandanforth
I don't see any official announcement of this on their Twitter feed so its likely an in-progress change.
sbarre
I'm in the same boat. Maybe it's a phased rollout?
I'm in Canada, maybe this is US-only at first?
handfuloflight
Tried it in the US. Still tells me I need a Max plan.
sbarre
Update: It works now.
hboon
/login didn't help?
timmg
No. It gives two options: Max or pay-as-you-go. I selected Max and it told me I needed to upgrade from Pro.
timmg
Works now.
submeta
Does anyone know if this is available for the Teams plans as well? I still use a teams plan (5 users where I only use one seat). I did this before Anthropic introduced the Max plans. Would love to migrate to Max plan, but I don't have the time to recreate dozens of projects with all the attachments.
Is someone from Anthropic reading this? Is it possible to downgrade Teams plan to an individual Max plan and keep all the projects?
mortsnort
I have found Cline with Claude 4 to be light years better than using Claude Code (doing full vibe coding). The planning step and heavy communication of Cline leads to strong code, while Claude code pumps out disconnected spaghetti code. Is this the same experience others are having? I'd love to use the cheaper Claude code if it could perform better
naiv
Yes, it can be a real pain.
You can use https://github.com/eyaltoledano/claude-task-master via mcp or eg https://github.com/Helmi/claude-simone
iandanforth
I spent several hours and a few dollars with Claude Code last night on the PAYG plan so this is a welcome change if it gives me more for my Claude subscription.
caleblloyd
Can you have different people at different levels on the Teams plan? Like 2 pro, 2 max 5x, and 1 max 20x?
Them can you have it overflow to API credits once it hits the 5 hours max?
prmph
This is what I see when I try it:
Claude Code can now be used with your Max subscription from the Claude app or billed based on API usage through your Console account.
Select login method:
1. Claude account with Max subscription
Starting at $100/mo - Best value, predictable pricing
2. Anthropic Console account
API usage billing
tosh
seems like dev agent pricing is consolidating around
20/mo (light use)
100-200/mo (heavy use)
metered (brrrt use)viraptor
Do people actually get value out of the monthly plans? I've been using API access to both Claude and OAI and end up paying less, while I keep hearing about people being rate limited with lower usage. Am I missing something here? The only one that made sense to me was Cursor, but that comes with extra features and model switching.
hombre_fatal
Claude Code is only useable from a subscription.
Other than that, API + custom UI seems better since you're paying for the usage instead of competing with other flat-fee users for what seem to be overprovisioned resources (claude.ai was always throwing https 500 or 'sorry we're too busy' errors for me until I switched to API).
Not sure if it's cheaper though - I never checked.
It's insane how bad the first party chat apps are though. That's reason enough to use the API.
nmcfarl
This was once true, I think, but it is no longer true. If you set an API key in your environment, Claude Code will work.
bananapub
> Claude Code is only useable from a subscription.
incorrect, you can pay per API call instead if you want.
CuriouslyC
I use APIs for coding with Aider (gemini 2.5 pro is my preferred model), but still subscribe to ChatGPT plus because being able to use better models like O3 and 4.1 in chat, plus unlimited image generation, Realtime voice/video, Deep Research and Codex (as a backup agent while I'm manually driving Aider) ends up being worth the price.
KaiserPro
It tells me that I need to upgrade to max still.
ianwalter
I would subscribe to Max if they had a coding agent interface on web like OpenAI's Codex, but without a novel implementation like that the monthly plan doesn't make sense since you can just use API, OpenRouter, etc.
bananapub
> without a novel implementation like that the monthly plan doesn't make sense since you can just use API, OpenRouter, etc.
what a weird reply. whether the monthly plan makes sense depends on 1) whether it does useful things for you 2) whether you'd otherwise spend more than $20/month in API credits (which is low single digit hours of it churning away, in my experience).
ianwalter
How is that a weird reply? I literally started the sentence with "I".
bluelightning2k
I read through the pricing page and it's super confusing. Like I can understand it but it just seems very awkward.
I much prefer the price, and pricing model, of Windsurf (although Claude 4 not being an option is odd)
trashburger
Windsurf is now owned by OpenAI so Anthropic is playing politics and not giving them access (they're pulling put all existing models in ~5 days too).
Nice, only got the pro plan and didn't want to get Nickel and Dimed per usage so ended up ignoring claude code, but will give it another go now to see how far I can get with the Pro plan.
Turned out to be a blessing as it led me to discovering augmentcode.com which I'm now using. It's a monthly usage cap but has a unique context engine where it indexes your entire code base which gives its agents access to a lot more content about your code base which helps when adding features to match your existing implementations without needing to explicitly feed it context in every agent message. It still uses Claude Sonnet 4 [1] under the hood so the results are great.
Blows me away what AI agents are capable of these days, it's especially nice when they end up creating new Tailwind UIs (Vue) that's better looking than what I was even thinking about creating.
[1] https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/claude-sonnet-4-the-best-mo...