Ask HN: What are you moving on to now that Claude Code is so rate limited?

3•esperent•2h ago

Paying $200 a month, I hit my weekly in 3 days last week.

Today, first day of the new week and I've hit 20% of the weekly limit in about 2 hours. At that rate, I'll hit the weekly limit in 10 hours of work. I haven't changed anything about the way I'm working since previous months and I've never hit limits like this before.

Clearly, we're being gaslighted and it's time to move on.

For an equivalent budget, what's the next best balance of quality and session limits for agent assisted coding?

Comments

loveparade•2h ago

Codex, it's much more generous. And doesn't lock you into using their CLI.

Still I'm a bit surprised you burn through tokens that quickly. I rarely ever reach my limit.

elC0mpa•2h ago

Well, maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I prefer the Gemini Cli, I paid Google AI Pro for the year and it is perfect for me, even though it's true that pro model sometimes takes like 2 - 4 minutes to answer

MeetingsBrowser•2h ago

Turn of the 1M context that got enabled by default. Long sessions eat through the tokens much faster.

Your sessions were probably getting auto-compacted much earlier before the context window got larger.

alex1sa•2h ago

Also worth checking if you're running long agentic loops — each tool call in a multi-step task counts against the window independently. So before switching providers, disable the extended context and run a day. It's probably not the model.

Jeremy1026•29m ago

I have the $100/mo Claude plan, I've used 5% of my weekly and it resets this evening. I'm not a heavy user, but I also feel like I'm not a slouch either. I don't get how people are rolling through their usage so fast.

kingkongjaffa•2m ago

It feels lower.

Last 2 weeks I was using it more or less all day on Opus running skills to write PRDs and then code and tests to solve the PRDs, never hit the session limit.

Last 2 days I hit the cap in about an hour of kicking off my skills workflow.

On the paid enterprise team plan this is really bad.

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