Can I use my
Claude Max subscription?
No — and you come out ahead. Darting runs a dozen agents at once in cloud sandboxes, which no personal subscription is built for. What you get instead is every frontier model at list price with 0% markup, Auto routing each step to the one that fits, and the machinery around the model that a terminal can't give you: a sandbox and branch per task, verification in a real browser, agents that fix their own CI and hand you a merged PR. You'd pay for tokens either way. Here they come with the rest of the job done.
“Darting sits above the model layer. Claude is one of the engines we run, alongside GPT, Grok and GLM, and Auto picks the right one for each step. That’s the part a subscription can’t offer: when a better model ships, you have it the next day with nothing to migrate — and what we actually sell is the landed PR around it.”
The model is the engine. Darting is everything that turns it into shipped code.
Claude Code is a great tool for one person in one terminal. Darting is built for a team shipping PRs, and it runs that same engine — plus the others — as one part of a much larger machine.
- One person, one laptop, one terminal, one task at a time
- A session: it runs while the lid is open
- A personal tool — one person's context, one person's credential
- Hands you a diff; verify, CI, merge and deploy are yours
- Memory is a CLAUDE.md you maintain by hand, per checkout, per person
- One model from one vendor, at that vendor's limits
- A team shipping PRs — many threads, many agents, in parallel
- A thread: its own cloud sandbox, branch, PR lane, preview URL, and desktop
- Teammates read it, send turns into it, and inherit its context
- Verifies in a real browser, fixes its own CI, resolves conflicts, lands the PR
- A project knowledge base every agent reads and writes
- Every frontier model on tap — Auto routes each step to the one that fits, at list price
What you get instead of a subscription
Six things a personal plan can't be, starting with the one that matters most as models keep changing.
Every frontier model, none of the lock-in
Darting runs Claude, GPT, Grok and GLM side by side and Auto routes each step to the one that fits — Claude where judgment matters, cheaper models for grep, typecheck and reruns. When a lab ships a better model, it's in your project the next day with nothing to migrate. A subscription ties you to one vendor's model, price curve, rate limits and outages; here the labs compete for your work.
Throughput a personal plan can't reach
A single Darting turn can fan out to a coder, a code reviewer, a security reviewer, and a UI driver on a desktop, while background passes — CI-failure fixes, merge-conflict turns, knowledge upkeep — run with nobody at the keyboard. Personal plans are sized for one person typing; Darting bills the tokens you actually use, so there's no five-hour window to run into.
A thread outlives your laptop
Darting's unit is a thread with its own sandbox, branch, PR lane, preview URL, and desktop. It runs while you sleep, teammates send turns into it, and it becomes the durable record of why the code looks the way it does. A terminal session ends when you close the lid.
Everything around the tokens is included
The expensive parts of shipping are the ones after the diff: proving it actually works in a real browser, the CI loop from red to green without a human, merge conflicts against main, the merge queue, deploying to a live URL. Darting does all of it and hands you a merged PR.
Memory the whole team compounds
Every Darting thread reads and writes a project knowledge base — how auth works here, how the tests run, which approach was tried and abandoned. Each thread starts smarter than the last, for everyone on the project, instead of a CLAUDE.md maintained by hand per person.
Built to be a team's billing backbone
Team access, per-project model allow-lists, per-user quotas, admin usage reporting, secrets that never enter the transcript, and one credit balance the whole team draws from — at every provider's list price with 0% markup. A personal subscription is a personal credential; this is infrastructure.
When Claude Code + Max is the better deal
Keep Claude Code if
You’re a solo developer who codes interactively all day in a terminal. Anthropic subsidizes Max to win exactly that user, and for that use it’s a better deal than Darting. It’s great at what it does — keep it.
Darting wins when
The problem is throughput: more PRs than people, work that should run unattended, a team that needs shared context and a verified, mergeable output. The unit of value isn’t a session — it’s a landed PR you didn’t have to babysit.
What about the token line?
“If what you want is a Claude terminal, keep Claude Code. What Darting gives you is the thing around the model: a sandbox and branch per task, agents that verify in a real browser, fix their own CI, resolve their own merge conflicts, and land PRs while you’re doing something else — using whichever model is right for each step, from whichever lab is ahead this month. Your token spend is a line item; the engineering hours it replaces are the bill.”
And on that line item: Darting meters every model at the provider’s list price with 0% markup, so Claude on Darting costs exactly what the same work would on your own Anthropic API key — and switching a step to another lab’s model is a dropdown, not a migration. See how credits work.
Bring a repo. The models are already here.
Start with $10 in free credits. Point an agent at a repo and see what a landed PR costs when the model is only one line of the bill.