kisamoto

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

https://braw.dev/blog/2026-04-06-reallocating-100-month-claude-spend/

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code spend to Zed and OpenRouter

With Anthropic altering rate limits, we can find other places to spend our money. I have chosen Zed editor with OpenRouter for maximum flexibility.

Apr 9 at 8:55amWeb
Show threadhhthrowaway12301d ago
note: doesn't openrouter charge 5.5% fee?
Show threadkisamoto1d ago

You are absolutely correct, I was not aware of this. I will update the article accordingly and perhaps it's more worthwhile to stay solely on Cursor with the limited models.

Sadly Zed seems to add 10% so it's still more worthwhile to use OpenRouter.

Show threadKelteseth1d ago
Come on at least write the Hackernews replies yourself.
Show threadkisamoto1d ago
I did. Perhaps too much consumption of AI responses but articles and engagement are written by me - a human.
Show threadComputer01d ago
When I use the tool ccusage it says I use $600 of usage a month for my $100. I don’t know that this is a good value proposition for me if I want to stay with the same model, half the reason I use Claude code, personally.
Show threadblitzar1d ago

> Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend

The new gimped claude code limits means my claude code spend the last month is $131. It cost me $20. I did an additional spend $5 on extra usage which cost me $5.

While VC's are setting fire to money I am going to warm my hands.

Show threadComputer01d ago
I have had credits on open router that haven’t been deleted since near the projects launch, I believe 365 days is not a rule but rather a right reserved.
Show threadbashtoni1d ago

After hitting Claude limits today I spent the afternoon using OpenCode + GLM 5.1 via OpenRouter and I was very impressed.

OpenCode picked up my CLAUDE.md files and skills straight away, and I got similar
performance to Opus 4.6.