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Anthropic says the wait before Claude Code's first token in local sessions fell from 4.07 to 1.33 seconds between August and October, measured at p90 without model time. It credits gzip-compressed requests and cloud sessions that start booting as you type.
Claude Code and Codex both cost $20 a month at the first paid tier, and both $20 plans meter your work with five-hour and weekly limits, but they differ on free access, top tiers, how much each company discloses about your allowance and what you can buy when it runs out. Here is how the two compare, based on official pages, and which kinds of users each one suits.
What Codex, Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and the Chinese coding plans (GLM, Kimi, Qwen, MiniMax and more) actually cost in October 2026, and how much usage each tier gets, checked against official pricing pages.
Anthropic meters Claude Code with a five-hour session limit and a weekly limit that are shared with the Claude apps, and it publishes multiples rather than numbers. Here is what each plan gets, what happened to the 50% weekly boost, how resets and usage credits work, and what the limit messages mean.
A shared interface screenshot shows Claude's language selection menu now includes both Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese options; American English remains the default selected language, and the screenshot does not state a specific release date or model version.
Since June 1, 2026, GitHub Copilot has charged for chat, agents and the CLI in GitHub AI Credits, worth $0.01 each and priced per token at each model's rates. Here is what Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise include, how to turn credits into dollars and tokens, and what replaced premium requests.
Anthropic is rolling out a support program for early-stage startups, which gives participating companies a full year of free access to Claude Team along with $1,000 in model usage credits, according to a TechCrunch report. The company says it built the program because it believes the benefits of AI will reach most people through companies that build products on top of models, rather than through the models themselves.
Google Cloud's new Gemini agent works inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Microsoft 365 and Slack, sends each task to a Gemini or Claude model, and can run as a "coworker" with its own email address. It is in private preview for enterprise customers.
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, the newest version of its smallest and lowest-cost Claude model. The company says it is faster and more capable than Haiku 4.5, while cutting average running costs by about 75%, with the biggest savings on requests under 100,000 tokens.
Keep Claude Code, swap the model: step-by-step setup for Z.ai GLM, Alibaba Cloud Qwen, MiniMax, Kimi, BytePlus and StepFun coding plans, taken from each vendor's official docs. Plus how to switch back to Claude, the errors people hit, and the plan rules worth knowing.
Anthropic's AI assistant and model family for writing, analysis and coding.
Claude API: Opus 5.5 $4/$20 per 1M tokens, Sonnet 5.5 $2/$10, Haiku 5.5 $0.10/$0.50, Fable 5.1 $10/$50; Batch is 50% off. Pro is $20/month and Max starts at $100/month, both including Claude Code.
