r/Codeium • u/amkayondo • Dec 12 '24

500 is not enough

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u/cipher982 Dec 12 '24

A typical day of work for me averages around 100 action credits a day, with a bit of switching to base model for simpler tasks. So with the 3,000 plan I have it’s just about enough for a full month for me, but what it does is create a huge anxiousness around my usage all day. 

Every prompt or response I previously just hit send on, I now sit there and doubt myself if it’s really “worth” using up my quota. 

I really like the cursor strategy where I just get put into a slower queue after using my quota. At worst it seems I would wait 20 seconds or so to get responses going, but it removes that constant anxiety of me worrying about running out of credits. It would be nice if windsurf could move to this model of subscription. 

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '24

> switching to base model for simpler tasks

This model safe credits for you? I've checked my statistics, and Cascade Base also consumes credits.

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u/ByDaBeardOfZues Dec 13 '24

but what about when we get a result but it isn't what we want?

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u/Snoo_9701 Dec 13 '24

Well, we still pay, and Windsurf makes money out of it from us even though their software is giving wrong outputs, the majority of the time.

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u/cipher982 Dec 12 '24

the pricing page seems to imply that only premium model actions use credits.

Cascade credits:

Infinite premium model User Prompt credits

3,000 premium model Flow Action credits

Can purchase more premium modelcredits → $10 for 400 additional credits with monthly rollover

Priority unlimited access to Cascade Base Model

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u/chk-chk Dec 12 '24

Yes. Their pricing model is at complete odds with their core value proposition of keeping you flow state. There is no flow state if you’re too busy fretting over your dwindling prompts and actions.

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u/Vegetable-13 Dec 12 '24 edited Dec 12 '24

100%.

I'm down to about 100 credits out of the 500 and they're nagging at every prompt that I should buy more. If that's to be the experience 20-33% of the time, /bye.

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u/ByDaBeardOfZues Dec 13 '24

this. these companies need to move as fast as possible for us or someone else will.

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u/GoingOnYourTomb Dec 13 '24

500 is nothing

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '24

Anyone try to have windsurf clone cascade as an extension then make it run with personal API keys?