First of all, if you, dear top 1% Redditor, have not yet been affected by the usage limits scam Anthropic is pulling, read the following - You are not special. You are not doing anything different. You are not better. There are no secret settings or workflows that you are doing. You are not more skilled. So don’t tell me to stop surfacing my concern. You just haven’t been affected yet. Wait till next week. Now that that is out of the way, let me proceed. I was brought into the party a bit late. I used to see fellow Redditors complain about the usage scamming Anthropic is doing. It finally got to me this week. I ran out of my €200 Max weekly limit 6 days into the week. So I thought to add €5 in extra usage. Even switched to Sonnet 1M. The damn €5 burnt out in exactly 2 prompts!!! Somebody explain to me how Sonnet priced at €3 per Million tokens can burn through €5 in 2 prompts. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Ok, rant over. What are people doing? Unsubscribe Anthropic? Sure. Then what? Switch to OpenAI/ Google? I’ll try. My question is, are there any open-source models out there that can be self-hosted and which will offer comparable quality to January 2025 Opus 4.5 because that was the fucking gold standard and then things just fucking went south. Sorry, needed to rant. Now I will go back to my desk and try to solve the damn problem. submitted by /u/valaquer
Originally posted by u/valaquer on r/ClaudeCode