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Ask HN: Any good alternatives to Claude that are just not Claude?

A Hacker News user seeking a cheaper alternative to Anthropic's Claude AI assistant complained that Claude does not disclose its token limits, showing only a vague percentage, and asked for recommendations for tools with comparable or better reasoning that clearly state usage limits.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 11, 2026

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | I really like using Claude for writing docs, sum up texts or search causes of big logical bugs that would take hours to debug, tho I hate the fact that you don't know how many tokens you have left, what the actual limit is etc. They just give you a damn percentage that tells nothing, id like something that is first of all cheaper, has the same or better thinking and just actually tells me my limits. Is there anything like that? | ||||||||||| |

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