He uses $70 for remaining credit and says that's a good thing because it rolls over
But spending $70 on an API (he says he still prefers Opus) is far less cost effective than a Max plan on Anthropic.
The article seems to be nudging us to setup OpenRouter but the premise isn't fully true. A bit of diversity is excellent, but the costs are going to (largely) prohibit it in reality?
OP here. I do like Opus but I don't default to it for everything. My CC usage is a lot of Haiku/Sonnet and is also very bursty (bursts throughout the month, not a day).
I find that a lot of my Claude usage goes unused and then when I'm coding or leaning on agents I hit a limit and have to wait. I don't like that dynamic. I do have Extra Usage enabled (with a cap) but then I'm spending more than the $100 I already do.
I'm learning that a lot of people seem to consistently stay within limits and that works for them but I was looking for something different for myself.
The real pain is that Anthropic don't easily quantify usage (which can now change over the day). How many tokens is it? Minimum? Maximum? I tried to quantify this with OpenTelemetry for a while but have decided to move to this more flexible setup.
He uses $70 for remaining credit and says that's a good thing because it rolls over
But spending $70 on an API (he says he still prefers Opus) is far less cost effective than a Max plan on Anthropic.
The article seems to be nudging us to setup OpenRouter but the premise isn't fully true. A bit of diversity is excellent, but the costs are going to (largely) prohibit it in reality?