Barely competitors: Max is frontier Claude with the best coding agent; Featherless is open-weight models for a fraction of the price: $25 for chat you type, or per-token credits from $50 for coding agents. Pick by quality bar. If DeepSeek/GLM-class output satisfies your tasks, Featherless's Developer plan beats a $200 plan on cost. If your work leans on frontier judgment, there's no substitute in the open-weight catalogue yet.
This comparison is maintained by Standard Compute. We sell a third thing entirely (flat-rate LLM compute with a fixed monthly budget, from $19/mo), so we have no horse in this particular race and keep both sides honest. If neither plan above fits because the meter itself is your problem: the full comparison including us →