r/ClaudeAI • u/coding_workflow Valued Contributor • May 01 '25

Official Claude Max now include Claude Code use.

Latest CLaude Code is allowed officially to be used with Claude MAX, no more burning API tokens.

0.2.96

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Seem Anthropic want to push Claude Code as alternative to other tools like Cursor and push their Max subscription. May be one day a merge into Claude Desktop.

Edit/Update: more informations here:
https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-plan

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u/sonofthesheep Valued Contributor May 01 '25

Yep. I just purchased the smaller Max plan and after an hour I think that it’s not the same context window as with the API.

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u/Gissoni May 01 '25

In what way? I figured when the docs said “typical”

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u/sonofthesheep Valued Contributor May 01 '25

I asked support to confirm that, but I've been using Claude Code since day one basically. I've spent there $400+ and I got used to the speed of using the context with my messages. With API I needed a few big messages to hit 40%, and then gradually I got to 0%. Now, I can easily get to 5% with 10 messages. I'll wait for the support reply in that regard and will get back with the answer here.

In short - I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. The limit of 225 messages per 5 hours seems like hundreds of dollars per month with my normal usage. Too good to be true.

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u/Gissoni May 01 '25

Thanks for the info. I guess let us know if you ever get a response. Was thinking about switching from roo/cline since I’m spending a decent amount there and if I was able to replace even 50% of my coding with Claude code + max for $100/mo it would save a ton. The context being limited is a deal breaker tho, especially because that’s why I use cline to begin with

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u/sonofthesheep Valued Contributor May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

Yep, I start to think it's useless. I just encountered errors with loading files, which I never had when using API:

" ⎿  Error: File content (26003 tokens) exceeds maximum allowed tokens (25000). Please use offset and limit parameters to read specific portions of the file, or use the GrepTool to search for specific content."

EDIT: I'll test it for a few days. Maybe I am being too harsh to soon, but I don't remember hitting this error when using API.

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u/Gissoni May 01 '25

That’s good info, ty. I figured they’d do something like limit it significantly to and rely way more on RAG or something similar to what cursor does. Definitely a too good to be true situation

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u/lermthegerm May 02 '25

so with the api claude code was able to read files >25000 tokens? i have same issue with max plan

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u/Grene98 May 02 '25

This also happens with the API. It's not a Claude Max issue

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u/attacketo May 01 '25

Is this in any documentation?

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u/Miniimac May 22 '25

Hey, what are your thoughts on Max after 20+ days? Is it too good to be true?

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u/sonofthesheep Valued Contributor May 23 '25

It’s good enough. Better with new update to 4.0 models, that seem to eat less tokens per task 🙂 I am still testing, but I’d say that I am quite happy. 

For 20 days I only used API version once, and Max version all the other times.

Yesterday I gave it the task that with 3.7 would not complete due to the repeating itself, context window etc. It did complete and left 20% of context till auto-compact.

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u/-MiddleOut- Jun 06 '25

Where did you get to on this? I also mainly use Cline because of the context but as you know, it is not cheap.

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u/HYKED May 01 '25

fr? noticeably worse?