Claude pricing is too high or keeps changing
8 posts from 8 people8d activeSteady, +1 this week
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...online chatting becauese of bugs (not sharing) Hermes, OpenRouter, . No Claude/Codex sub too expensive. Use them at work instead.
...you're telling me that even with these models being so heavily subsidised they're still too expensive?. them: but it's not that good. it takes me a week to do something with it that it'd have taken Claude a day.. me: I wonder if the heavy subsidies of compute from the previous...
...| $0.57 | | Kimi K3 / direct API | Intelligent but not notable; extremely slow and far too expensive. | 205,710 | 3,215 | $0.72 | | ChatGPT Astra Latest | Medium speed, token-efficient, highly intelligent; cost similar to Fable. | 278,603 | 1,536 | $0.83 | | Claude Fable 5.1 |...
I re-created my favorite card game together with Claude. After 4 months, I'm willing to share it here.
...ridden Catan World app on iOS and Android that doesn't allow crossplay (AFAIK), does not work on PC, and is critically buggy.. The game So, as I said it's Catan: Duel of Kings inspired and I tried to keep the spirit of the board game alive in my digital version.. Every player...
Strix halo + CMP 170HX setup
...trying to fit DS 4.1) !. disclaimer : no AI involved in writing this post and my english sucks, i know. .
...route for enterprise. With copilot at least you can choose cheaper models if things get too expensive and restrict them in the worst case. None are cheap though you’re talking hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year if you have over a thousand people using it.
Keep hitting paywalls
I couldn’t get my computer version to link to my iPhone version. Worthless to me. Moving on.
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Evidence
8 posts from 8 people in 5 places, about 1 a week over 43 days. Mostly on Hacker News comments, Claude App Store reviews, r/LocalLLaMA. Tools named alongside: ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Qwen, llama.cpp.
Frustration Frustration 2 of 3· Seen on Hacker News, Reddit, App Store reviews, Mastodon
How it was grouped
Posts that state a pain and match the "tool-pricing" rule about Claude. First post Sep 24, 2026, latest Nov 5, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method
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