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The subsidy has a leash

calendar_today July 17, 2026 person Tim Stacey domain barndoor

Anthropic and OpenAI are subsidizing your coding subscription. Here’s how to keep the discount and not get stuck when you hit the rate limit. Research firm SemiAnalysis ran the math recently: a $200/month Claude Max plan, used hard, pulls around $8,000 of tokens at API list prices.

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