Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi

Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by edweis on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:38AM (#50411181)

I am a CC user on the 20x, 5x is too small for me. Doing some quick maths I found that the Anthropic subscription it is a bargain compared to other models on API usage.

Does using Pi saves you so much token overhead that my maths are wrong?

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Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by 2001zhaozhao on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:39AM (#50411189)

There are some extensions you can use to use your claude subscription on Pi, it runs Claude Code under the hood but with pi's prompts. The same is possible with Opencode

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Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by vorticalbox on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:45AM (#50411218)

Yeah but then you still get Claude’s and codex massive system prompt which is around 20k tokens last I checked.

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Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by ggregoire on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:08AM (#50411318)

My opencode go usage dashboard says i spent 1.5 billions token of ds4.1flash this month and it cost me about $1

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Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by ejohansson on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:22AM (#50411382)

There is no 20x any longer, no?

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Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by ggregoire on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:27AM (#50411411)

My opencode go usage dashboard says i spent 1.6 billion tokens of ds4.1flash this month and it cost me ~$1.1 (w/ 99.04% cache hit), using opencode tui

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