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title: "Coding Agent Guides: Usage Limits, Pricing and Comparisons | Reason Machines"
description: "Sourced guides to Claude Code and Codex usage limits, weekly resets, Claude Code pricing, alternatives and head-to-head comparisons, and how to keep working when one agent runs out."
url: "https://reasonmachines.com/guides"
section: "Coding agent guides"
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# Coding agent guides: usage limits, pricing and comparisons

These guides explain how Claude Code and Codex usage limits, resets and plans work, quoted from Anthropic's and OpenAI's own pages, and compare the main coding agents fairly. Each one also shows how to keep a task moving when one agent hits its limit, in Reason's web or Mac app on the plans you already pay for.

Updated Nov 2026

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## Keep working when one agent runs out

1. **Open Reason on the web or the Mac app**: Sign in at reasonmachines.com, or download the Reason Mac app for macOS from reasonmachines.com/download and sign in there. Both open the same Sessions.
2. **Connect the plans you already pay for**: In Settings › Models, choose Sign in with ChatGPT to run OpenAI models on your ChatGPT Plus, Pro or Business plan, and add any other subscriptions or API keys you use. Reason runs on your own accounts first; a Reason plan's credits cover the rest.
3. **Carry the task on**: When one agent hits its usage limit, push the work in progress and tell Reason the branch and what's next. Pick a model on an account that still has usage.

## Usage limits

- [Claude Code usage limit reached: what to do](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-usage-limit.md)
- [How the Claude usage limit works](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-usage-limit-explained.md)
- [When the Claude weekly limit resets](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-weekly-limit-reset.md)
- [Codex usage limit: what to do](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/codex-usage-limit.md)
- [Never hit a usage limit mid-task](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/usage-limit-fallback.md)
- [Claude and Codex usage limit changes, Oct 26 to Nov 1, 2026](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-usage-limit-changes.md)

## Pricing

- [Claude Code pricing](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-pricing.md)

## Comparisons and alternatives

- [Codex vs Claude Code](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/codex-vs-claude-code.md)
- [Claude Code alternatives, free ones included](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-alternatives.md)
- [opencode vs Claude Code](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/opencode-vs-claude-code.md)
- [Antigravity vs Claude Code](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/antigravity-vs-claude-code.md)
- [Reason vs Codex](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/reason-vs-codex.md)
- [Claude Code with Ollama and local models](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-ollama.md)

## Coding agents compared

- [Best coding agents in 2026](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/best-coding-agents.md)
- [Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-vs-codex-vs-cursor.md)
- [Claude Code vs Cursor](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-vs-cursor.md)
- [Claude Code competitors](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-competitors.md)
- [Codex alternatives](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/codex-alternatives.md)
- [Cursor alternatives](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/cursor-alternatives.md)
- [Devin alternatives](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/devin-alternatives.md)
- [Autonomous coding agents](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/autonomous-coding-agents.md)
- [Reason vs Claude Code](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/reason-vs-claude-code.md)
- [Reason vs Devin](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/reason-vs-devin.md)

## Running agents unattended

- [Can Claude Code run overnight?](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-overnight.md)
- [Does Claude Code run 24/7?](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-24-7.md)
- [Background coding agents](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/background-coding-agents.md)

## Connect your agents

- [How to connect Muse to Claude Code](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/muse-claude-code.md)

## Questions

### Where do these figures come from?

Every plan, price, limit and command is quoted from the vendor's own page, linked in the guide, and checked on the date shown under each guide's heading.

### What does Reason cost?

Reason's plans are Pro at $50 a month and Max at $200 a month. Models you run on your own connected accounts count against those accounts.

## More guides

- [Codex vs Claude Code](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/codex-vs-claude-code.md)
- [Claude Code usage limit reached: what to do](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-usage-limit.md)
- [How the Claude usage limit works](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-usage-limit-explained.md)
- [When the Claude weekly limit resets](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-weekly-limit-reset.md)
- [Codex usage limit: what to do](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/codex-usage-limit.md)
- [Claude Code alternatives, free ones included](https://reasonmachines.com/guides/claude-code-alternatives.md)
- [Download Reason for macOS](https://reasonmachines.com/download)