[timcobb]

How much does it cost to run Claude Code 24 hrs/day like this. Does the $200/month plan hold up? My spend on Cursor has been high... I'm wondering if I can just collapse it into a 200/month CC subscription.

[alecco]

This guy tested it: https://she-llac.com/claude-limits

"Suspiciously precise floats, or, how I got Claude's real limits" 19hs ago 25 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756742

OTOH, with ChatGPT/Codex limits are less of a problem, in general.

[esafak]

Because Codex effectively rate limits you by being so slow.

[vidarh]

If you're using it 24h/day you probably will run into it unless you're very careful about managing context and/or the requests are punctuated by long-running tool use (e.g. time-consuming test suites).

I'm on the $200/month plan, and I do have Claude running unattended for hours at a time. I have hit the weekly limits at times of particularly aggressive use (multiple sessions in parallel for hours at a time) but since it's involved more than one session at the time, I'm not really sure how close I got to the equivalent of one session 24/7.

[pigeonhole123]

How do you prompt it so it can run many hours at a time? Or do you run it in some kind of loop that you manage yourself?

[kvdveer]

There's a daily token limit. While I've never run into that limit while operating Claude as a human, I have received warnings that I'm getting close. I imagine that an unattended setup will blow through the token limit in not too much time.

[storystarling]

I built a similar autonomous loop using LangGraph for a publishing backend and the raw API costs were significantly higher than $200. The subscription model likely has opaque usage limits that trigger fairly quickly under that kind of load. For a bootstrapped setup I usually find the predictability of the API bill worth the premium over hitting a black box limit.

[tom1337]

I have no first-hand experience with the Max subscription (which the $200 plan is) but having read a few discussions here and on GitHub [1] it seems that Anthropic has tanked the usage limits in the last few weeks and thus I would argue that you would run into limits pretty quick if you using it (unsupervised) for 24h each day.

1) https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157

[hombre_fatal]

The employee in that thread claims that they didn't change the rate limits and when they look into it, it's usually noob error.

It's a really low quality github issue thread. People making claims with zero data, just vibes, yet it's trivial to get the data to back the claims.

The guy who responds to the employee even claims that his "lawyer is already on the case" in some lame threat.

I wonder how many of these people had 30 MCP servers installed using 150k of their 200k context in every prompt.