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techMEDIUM2026-04-25 11:05 UTC

Cutting my AI spend to zero with an open-source Claude Code alternative

I pay AUD$155/month for Claude Max. I have a MacBook Pro that runs large models fine. Two things bugged me about Claude Code: Even though Max was paid for, the API billed separately when I wired in third-party tools. My laptop sat idle while every refactor went to a remote API. So I built OpenAgent.

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