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

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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?

MeetingsBrowser · Accepted Answer

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.

loveparade · Answer

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 · Answer

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

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

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.

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.

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