Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter (braw.dev) AI

The article explains how the author is shifting from a $100/month Claude Code/Anthropic spend to a setup centered on the Zed editor (about $10/month) and additional model capacity via OpenRouter (monthly $90 top-ups). It describes using Zed’s built-in agent harness or continuing with Claude Code by configuring it to call OpenRouter endpoints, and compares tradeoffs like context size, pricing/credit rollover, and extension support. The post also covers privacy/data-retention settings and briefly mentions other CLI agent harnesses that can work with OpenRouter.