✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

A flat monthly subscription to open-source LLMs | Synthetic

synthetic.new · 922 words · saved by 1 readers

May 1st of this year, Anthropic launched a flat, monthly subscription to use Claude models inside Claude Code. This was pretty groundbreaking for coding use cases: coding agents tend to consume tokens pretty hungrily, and being able to wrap your coding agent spending into a flat subscription fee meant it was much harder to lose your shirt trying to refactor your codebase. Until now there wasn't a similar subscription for open-source models, so it was harder to justify using them for coding agents. So: today we're launching one. It's $20/month for 125 requests per five hours (3x Claude's $20/month rate limits), or $60/month for 1250 — more than Claude's $200/month Max subscription, at less than a third of the price. We never train on your data, and we delete all prompt and completion data from the API within 14 days. (In fact, we don't intentionally store prompts or completions at all, but give ourselves 14 days to remediate if a log statement accidentally slips through.) We're launchin

synthetic / Blog A flat monthly subscription to open-source LLMs | Synthetic A flat monthly subscription to open-source LLMs August 28, 2025 May 1st of this year, Anthropic launched a flat, monthly subscription to use Claude models inside Claude Code. This was pretty groundbreaking for coding use cases: coding agents tend to consume tokens pretty hungrily, and being able to wrap your coding agent spending into a flat subscription fee meant it was much harder to lose your shirt trying to refactor your codebase. Until now there wasn't a similar subscription for open-source models, so it was hard

Explore this link on the map →

related reading