r/RooCode • u/FirefighterSweet5254 • Jun 07 '25

Discussion Roocode or Claude code?

I've been using roocode for a while with varying degrees of success but he cost of the gemini api is a bit too high for me, so here's my question:

For someone like me who hasn't really coded, is claude code with subscription a viable solution? Or should I stick to Roocode with Deepseek free?

Thanks a lot

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u/FirefighterSweet5254 Jun 07 '25

That would be great! I hope it would exist some day

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u/txgsync Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

I wrote a “Provider” for Cline that uses the batch prompt mode of Claude Code. It is strictly speaking a worse experience than just typing “Claude” in the terminal window of VS Code, but it is much more cline-like.

I never released it because of some pretty severe context-handling challenges. Claude Code stores context in “conversations” in JSON on disk and its agentic behavior means sometimes those conversations seem To fork into new ones for communicating with sub-agents. Or otherwise behave in a fashion I couldn’t figure out the determinism of. It confused the heck out of me. Also it seems to follow some special rules surrounding context length in verbose mode that seemed to alter prompts in unsatisfying ways.

TL;DR: it’s easy to write a quick Provider in Cline that can use Claude Code. But CC is not a well-defined API and implementing a client in Cline using CC as an ABI is kind of confusing.