Claude Desktop: Subscription vs. API model

[rekdt]

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Does anyone know if Claude Desktop in developer mode uses the subscription payment model or the API? I don’t see any logs in the API when the desktop uses function calling, so I’m assuming it’s limited to the subscription model? If that’s the case, is there a way to change it? It would be frustrating to be restricted to just the subscription model.

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