I’ve been working with the Claude API through a friend lately, and I love it. Claude code is extremely powerful when you have the right skills and MCPS. Now I have to decide on a subscription plan; the 20x plan is just too expensive for me, and the Pro plan has a really low limit. So it has to be the 5x plan. Since my project is relatively large, and I saw that with a subscription, the cache isn’t included in the limit at all and is free—which is extremely good—because with my API usage, 70% of the costs were just cache input and usage, since it’s relatively large and the input from Opus was only correct once, and the output from Opus is never really much, always quite low. I wanted to ask if it’s possible with the Max 5x plan to use Opus 4.6 daily and Sonnet 4.6, so that I don’t reach my weekly limit, and generally how high the limit is for the 5x plan. Also, I wanted to ask about the cache—you can set it to 1 hour instead of 5 minutes. Normally, that would be more expensive, but with the subscription, the cache is free. How does that work? Is the 1-hour cache free, or does that extra limit cost extra? I know there’s a lot of info about the limits on the website, but I also know that Claude calculates it in a very strange way, so I wanted to ask around here. submitted by /u/No-Background3147
Originally posted by u/No-Background3147 on r/ClaudeCode
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