Here's What Indie Devs Need to Do Before Claude's Pricing Split
The first time I noticed how much programmatic Claude usage was hiding inside my $20 Pro subscription was when I added a GitHub Action that ran claude -p on every pull request. The action did three things: summarized the diff, drafted a release note, and flagged any new env vars touched. It worked. I shipped it. I forgot about it.
Three weeks later, I had pushed forty PRs, and the action had run about a hundred and ten times after retries and reruns. I never saw a bill. Not because the work was free, but because Anthropic was quietly eating the cost. I was paying $20 a month and consuming what would have been, by my own back-of-envelope math, somewhere between $80 and $180 of API usage in that window. The subscription was doing the heavy lifting, and the subscription was a great deal.
That deal ends on June 15,...
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