How does anyone use cline with claude?

Started testing this today on Anthropic. I was tired of copy/pasting my code into chatgpt all the time and wanted a system that would work with my code directly and know about my codebase.

I can execute one, maybe two commands using Anthropic as my provider before it hits rate limits. I can't even spend my money if I wanted to due to these limits.

I saw recommendations to use openrouter, but something as simple as a question on claude-3.5-sonnet cost me $0.17. It will blow through credits without actually doing anything. Not to mention it's yet to prove if it's any better than the typical poor responses I get from chatgpt after awhile.

Is there a pro subscription or anything I can do as an individual to not be hit with such limits? I'd like to see what this is capable of without throwing a ton of money at it.