I don’t think you need to be a business to use the API? At least I’m fairly certain I’m using it in a personal capacity. You are never going to hit $120/month even with full-time usage (no guarantees of course, but I get to like $40/month).
Careful -- a solo dev using it professionally, meaning, coding with it as a pair coder (XP style), can easily spend $1500/week.
Re:Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
by dghlsakjg on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:06PM
(#43185623)
$1500 is 100 million output tokens, or 500 million input tokens for Claude 3.7.
The entire LOTR trilogy is ~.55 million tokens.
If you are sending and receiving the text equivalent of several hundred copies of the LOTR trilogy every week, I don't think you are actually using AI for anything useful, or you are providing far too much context.
You don't need to be a business to use the API.
You can do this yourself. Anyone can buy API credits. I literally just did this with my personal credit card using my gmail based account earlier today.
1. Subscribe to Claude Pro for $20 month
2. Separately, Buy $100 worth of API credits.
Now you have a Claude "ultimate" subscription where the credits roll over as an added bonus.
As someone who only uses the APIs, and not the subscription services for AI, I can tell you that $100 is A LOT of usage. Quite frankly, I've never used anywhere close to $20 in a month which is why I don't subscribe. I mostly just use text though, so if you do a lot of image generation that can add up quickly
I don't think you can generate images with claude. just asked it for pink elephant: "I can't generate images directly, but I can create an SVG representation of a pink elephant for you." And it did it :)
Re:Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
by dr_kiszonka on Monday February 24, 2025 @06:47PM
(#43166332)
That is a good idea. For something like Claude Code, $100 is not a lot, though.
i.e I'd like my chat and API usage to be all included under a flat-rate subscription.
Currenty Pro doesn't give me any API credits to use with coding assistants (Claude Code included ?) which is completely disjointed. And I need to be a business to use the API still ?
Honestly, Claude is so good, just please take my money and make it easy to do the above !