by Aditya_Garg 5 hours ago
Im really curious about this. Why pay API pricing? I burn 1000s of dollars a month of api according to claude usage but only pay the $100 subscription
My increasing frustration with these plans is the harness lock in.
Anthropic won't even let you run "claude -p [prompt]" any more... They bill it at api rates.
So if you're trying to automate the ai (and seriously, that's the point) the subsidized plans are crippled.
They postponed that change, here is the email they sent out:
> In May, we sent you an email announcing that starting today, the Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party apps built on the Agent SDK would stop drawing from subscription rate limits and move to a dedicated monthly credit. We're writing to let you know that we’re not making this change today. We’re working to update the plan to better support how users build with Claude subscriptions.
> What this means for you
> Nothing changes for now. Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party app usage continues to work with your subscription exactly as it did before today, and there's no credit to claim. Your subscription limits are unchanged. When we have an update, we'll share it with advance notice before it takes effect
They canned the moved to make -p commands API billable.
Z.ai does not lock you in to any harness.
Is there a secure way to use GLM without spending $10K’s for local HW? I “only” have a 128GiB inference machine, and don’t really trust anthropic not to steal my IP over time.
I see no reason to trust Z.ai more than other vendors.
I'm using synthetic.new and Neuralwatt with pi and its good and also cheap
I have had bad experience with neuralwatt GLM 5.2. Seems like they may be using quantized version of the model.
Hi I'm the CTO of neuralwatt, would love to hear your feedback on what your experience was. Feel free to email me scott@neuralwatt.com. Also for GLM5.2 we run the FP8 quantization at 1M context which is a common deployment target.
I think they rolled that back
And codex is even more subsidized. It's an absurdly good deal.
There is a whole iceberg topic on subsidizing.
So your question is really “if they’re giving free usage, why not take advantage of it?”
I do, so I don’t know the reasons not to, other than to experiment.
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