Mastodawn

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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hhthrowaway1230 1d ago

note: doesn't openrouter charge 5.5% fee?

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kisamoto 1d 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.

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Kelteseth 1d ago

Come on at least write the Hackernews replies yourself.

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kisamoto

I did. Perhaps too much consumption of AI responses but articles and engagement are written by me - a human.