Using Claude with a Claude Pro account in Positron Assistant

[mark-andrews]

I use Claude Code CLI in the terminal. I have a Pro account. When I login to Claude Code initially, I select my login method, which is either via my subscription or via an API.

As I understand it, I could choose the API option if I had a free Claude plan so long as I have sufficient funds associated with any API usage. But these are two separate billing methods. One is a monthly plan where usage up to some relatively generous (I think) limit it free, and the other is pay as you go.

So my main question: With Positron Assistant, it appears that I can only use the API pay as you go option to use Claude. In other words, I can not avail of the Pro account. Is that correct?

When I go to configure providers, when I select Claude, I can only use API (OAuth is not an option to select):

I have tried this on different platforms, and in each case I can only select the API option.

Here are my settings on Windows:

Positron Version: 2025.10.1 (user setup) build 4
Code - OSS Version: 1.103.0
Commit: b13dd1c
Date: 2025-10-14T22:00:24.445Z
Electron: 37.2.3
Chromium: 138.0.7204.100
Node.js: 22.17.0
V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200