Barely competitors: Max is frontier Claude with the best coding agent; Featherless is unlimited open-weight models for a fraction of the price. Pick by quality bar — if DeepSeek/GLM-class output satisfies your tasks, Featherless's $25 unlimited embarrasses 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 (unlimited tokens at a flat price, paced under sustained load, from $9/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 →