kisamoto2d ago

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.

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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.
Apr 9 at 10:16amWeb
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> 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.