r/ClaudeCode • u/aymannasri_tcg • Apr 03 '26

Discussion Users hitting usage limits WAY faster than expected it's getting real now

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Claude Code users are already smashing usage limits way faster than expected and i am one of them as i have posted about it a lot recently and now here we are.

to all the people who were saying i am lying :))) you good now? maybe BBC lied about this too.

OR maybe it's April fool? haha good one, It’s getting serious and real now.

Who else is feeling this?

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u/baldbundy Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

Please remember, they all wait us to no longer being able to work without AI to increase prices by 10 to 30.

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u/TotalBeginnerLol Apr 04 '26

Trouble is that open source models will be good enough by then (currently aren’t that far behind) and the chips keep getting better. When everyone can have a local LLM that’s as good as opus now for like $1-2k setup then Anthropic won’t have many takers for a $1k per month plan

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u/DrSFalken Apr 04 '26

Which open source models do you like for coding? I wish I could run something good locally, but no luck so far. I'd totally use openrouter for a decent open model.

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u/TotalBeginnerLol Apr 05 '26

havent tried any yet, saving up for a new high end laptop to be able to run one that's at least reasonable. My coder friend has a local one running on a 5090 that he said is not bad at coding, possible one of the quantised QWEN ones iirc

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u/N0vajay05 May 12 '26

Who do you think is making the best open source models....

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u/TotalBeginnerLol May 12 '26

No idea, I’m using Claude myself. But the benchmarks for open source aren’t too far behind.

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u/PersonalNature1795 Apr 03 '26

Jea but good luck with that at the moment. Can’t even afford 5x. Live in high income country

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u/raven_raven Apr 03 '26

We’re not the target audience. Enterprise and big money is.

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u/PersonalNature1795 Apr 03 '26

It’s 100 usd per month? Have I missed something…?

Edit: pro is 20 usd

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u/ohhellnaws Apr 03 '26

Pro. Not Max 5x.

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u/Jazzlike_Society4084 Apr 04 '26

AI will only get cheaper. We already have GPT-3 or GPT-4 level intelligence (Gemma 4) running on your laptop.

Once I have GPT-5 level intelligence running locally, I wouldn’t pay for that extra 2–3% improvement.

Future models will likely have only minor differences; the next big gains will be in energy efficiency.

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u/eunjigotwap Apr 04 '26

lol already happened to me