Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI spend in real-time)

Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by cortesoft on Saturday March 14, 2026 @03:53PM (#47380489)

I am always a hit confused when people talk about these charges... are you not using the subscriptions with the flat rates? I am on the $100 a month plan, and am constantly using clause code and never coming close to my limits. Maybe I am just not using it at the levels of some people...

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by Gobd on Saturday March 14, 2026 @03:59PM (#47380545)

I have noticed the same with the $100/mo plan, I hit the limt only once with heavy usage. Then when I use my employer's AWS Bedrock it's not uncommon for my spend to $50/day of serious work. It doesn't make much sense.

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by sroussey on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:07PM (#47380623)

Anthropic is subsidizing Claude Code. It makes lots of sense.

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by verdverm on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:07PM (#47380629)

The paid plans require you to use their interfaces or tooling. The main reason I pay per token is so I have tooling freedom. I'm not keen to let Big AI decide how I interact with this game changing technology.

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by cortesoft on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:58PM (#47381100)

I haven't yet been blocked by their tooling. All the current tools I use seem to work fine with the claude code interface, can just call it with -p.

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by copperx on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:00PM (#47380557)

$100 is for casual usage. To use it for work requires $200/mi plus extra usage.

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by Gobd on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:08PM (#47380643)

CC does all of my work and I have hit the $100/mo Max plan limit only once, and I probably could have just called it quits for the day at that point.

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by cortesoft on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:55PM (#47381072)

Are you saying that is the Claude rules for the subscription or saying because work uses more of it?

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by verdverm on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:05PM (#47380613)

I pay per token using an API (Vertex)

1. Higher limits and quota, goes up with more spend

2. I don't think it gets quant nerf's during busy times, since you are paying directly

3. With Gemini flash + CC prompts, it's nearly as good, so less spend and latency. I don't know how people deal with the delays between turns. I get to iterate much faster for most tasks

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by cortesoft on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:57PM (#47381091)

I don't seem to have any delays between turns with my Claude subscription, so not sure what you mean there.

Your second point seems like a guess.

For your first point, I bumped to the $100 plan because i was hitting limits with the $20 one, but haven't hit the limit with the new one yet...

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by verdverm on Sunday March 15, 2026 @04:03PM (#47391294)

I mean the 10-30s to wait for a frontier model to respond when the lite/flash models are just fine for almost all tasks

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by MattGaiser on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:04PM (#47380605)

How many agents are you using at once?

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by h1r1ms on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:14PM (#47380707)

Try this mcp for agents https://github.com/itsamruth/subagent-reuse

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by cortesoft on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:54PM (#47381060)

3 or 4? Plus whatever sub agents they spawn...

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