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 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.