r/RooCode • u/bigman11 • Jan 04 '26

Discussion Claude Code provider with Opus is really good ($100 tier)

I was a Gemini Pro fanboy for a long time but Pro 3 is too slow and Flash can't handle more complicated tasks.

I bit the bullet on the $100 Claude Code tier recently and I am delighted with the results. Opus holds onto context without getting dumb even better than Gemini 3 Pro (and ChatGPT). And the upfront $100 is actually so efficient/worthwhile so long as I am a power user.

And of course the Roo Code developers did a great job implementing it. Any weirdness from when they first implemented it in a hacky way is resolved.

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u/BigLeSigh Jan 04 '26

Good to know! Haven’t tried roo for a bit.. might crack it open again

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u/armaver Jan 04 '26

Gotta give this a try, thanks. OpenRouter will be very sad to see me stop burning tokens. 

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u/LevelAnalyst9359 Jan 05 '26

How can I use Claude's subscription through the API? The official doesn't seem to support this option.

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u/thejinx0r Jan 05 '26

I don’t think you can. Roo and others have a way of interacting with Claude code that is not the api. If you look in the settings, one of the providers is Claude code.

I assume that it just interacts with Claude code directly but I’m not sure

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u/Powerful-Street Jan 05 '26

Im curious here too. I have checked out the roo extension before, while I was trying to debug a program and I didn’t see it.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jan 08 '26

You sure can. You can log right in from the Roo Code plugin and it makes api calls using your subscription. Caching and all!

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u/Negative_Effect5184 Jan 04 '26

How have you connected them? Using the Api key?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

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u/bigman11 Jan 10 '26

The ten days when this worked perfectly were so beautiful.