I’m truly happy with my $100/month Claude Max subscription. Generally speaking, it works great for me, but the one catch is that I sometimes hit my usage limits. When that happens, I just have to wait for the five-hour reset. My own little timeout in the corner.

So, I found this nifty utility from khromov called claude-code-off-switcher, which makes it super easy to flip between my personal plan and the pay-as-you-go API.

Just for fun, I wanted to run a quick command on the API to see how much it would cost. It started creeping up to $1.60 for a single test, and I realized this is the quickest way to burn my money.

Speaking of burning money, I got curious. I wanted to see exactly how much I would have burned last month if I hadn’t been on the subscription plan. I used the ccusage tool to find out (which is so light, it doesn’t even need to be installed, you can just run it with one command).

And will you look at that:

Man, it makes my $100 subscription look absolutely fantastic in comparison.

Now, I just have to wait patiently for the clock to tick until the next reset.