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Articles tagged Claude Code
Claude Max weekly limit, measured: our Max 5x account, capped every week, used 48% to 82% less after Opus 5.5 arrived. One account only. See the data, the method and what Anthropic has published.
GLM Coding Plan starts at $18 a month. We compared it with Kimi Code, MiniMax M Plan, Alibaba's Coding Plan and DeepSeek on 4 October 2026, including Claude Code setup.
Claude Code with other models works through ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, either directly or via an LLM gateway. Here is the setup, tier routing, fallbacks and what you give up.
Claude Code is free to install, but the model is what costs money. These are the real free routes, local models, free tiers and gateways, and what you give up.
Prompt caching lets an LLM reuse the part of your prompt that has not changed and bill it at a fraction of the input price. Here is how the cache, its 5-minute and 1-hour TTL, and keep-alive pings work.
Claude subscription vs API comes down to how steady your usage is. See how each is billed, how the cache TTL differs, what drives Claude Code cost and how to track it.
Claude Code keeps session history as JSONL files and deletes them after 30 days by default. Learn where they live, how to change cleanupPeriodDays, fix a broken resume and archive everything.
