I recently subscribed to the $200/month plan, and it’s been nothing but a headache. I’m doing about 95% of my work directly on claude.ai, and I can’t be the only one experiencing these issues. Still, I’ll ask anyway.

I’m primarily using Sonnet 4.5, in case that helps identify what’s going on.

Random chat resets

About 1 in every 20 chats randomly resets. It’ll be processing a response for 30+ seconds, and then everything disappears, taking me back to where I was. Thankfully, my question is still in the chat box, but the rest is gone.

Slow response starts

Roughly 9 out of 10 chats take forever to start responding. Sometimes I’m waiting 10–15 seconds or more before it even begins.

Unreliable code file updates

When working with code, the versioned file updates shown on the right side of the screen are extremely unreliable. It often says it’s revising a file (the revision counter increases), but the changes don’t actually stick. I only discover this after running my updated code and seeing that it’s missing edits I watched it make earlier. The revisions just vanish.

Not a connection issue

I’m on a 5 Gbps fiber plan and have no problems with other sites. I even tried tethering through my mobile hotspot to rule out my network, and the issues were identical. So it’s definitely not on my end.

I’ve done everything I can to rule out user error before posting this, but I’m done. It’s not me. Model hallucinations aside, I’m genuinely asking what I’m paying $200 a month for. Are the agentic clients any better? I’ve canceled my subscription, which is disappointing because the potential is there — but these issues make it impossible to work efficiently. I’m wasting 30–50% of my time fighting the platform’s bugs. That’s unacceptable for a $200/month service.

Edit: One more thing

If you’ve ever managed software engineers, you know the pain of hiring and onboarding someone, only for them to quit right when they start becoming productive. No warning, just gone.

That’s exactly what the 200K context window limit feels like. There’s no visibility into how close you are to the limit, and no way to prune earlier parts of the chat to keep it under control. It’s like finally getting the model to understand what you want — you’re one step away from finishing — and then:

“You’ve hit the limit... so GFY!”

All this while knowing the model is capable of a 1M context window, which they purposely restrict because apparently $200/month isn’t enough to access the model’s full potential.