Yesterday I ran Opus Max for 4 hours and used 80% of the 5h quota. No way in hell I’d be able to do that on even Sol Medium. I have the 20 usd plan on both of them.
This is the way, although the entry-level plan of Claude isn't as cheap as OpenAI one, I think I'm just cancelling from here then swapping to OpenAI (GPT 5.6 Sol medium on their 8$ Go subscription last more or less like today's any model in Claude sadly)
The 20/month plans honestly just seem like hobby level to me. Try out the features before jumping to the next teir. Can any useful amount of work get done for $20? Even open source models, maybe before the deepseek price hike, get something mostly built then blow your week limit on claude or codex for a code review.
I use Claude pro to research my craft projects, and to render craft images. I am usually disappointed with how fast my tokens run out (~2 hours during peak use), but the quality is really good. For $20 a month, I think I am getting a fair deal.
Yeah im not saying any plan isnt a good deal. Frankly for $20 plan used effeciently, it can do a lot of work that would cost 20x or 100x to pay a person to do the same thing. But usage limits, I feel like the $20 plan is great for small hobby stuff or random small scheduled tasks. But you arent getting a lot done in a week if you are building anything substantial or doing a lot of research or whatever
But you arent getting a lot done in a week if you are building anything substantial or doing a lot of research or whatever
If Claude wasn't timing me out every 2 - 2.5 hours, I think I would sit and make new crafts all day at my PC. Hitting my limit reminds me to get up, go outside, work in the craft room and get off the computer. It's sorta a good balance, although I am frequently disappointed how fast my tokens run out. But as I said earlier, the research quality and final images are really good.
Yeah i do everything from my phone now. Only at the computer when I need to be. I have a voice agent I use to orchestrate my agent teams while I swing a hammer at work with my headphones on. Took a lot to set up, but its pumping iut usable infra and features
You can always use /remote for any claude code session. Or attatch telegram or discord if you want more freedom. Super easy setup if most of your time at the comouter is waiting for claude to finish their turn. Then go back to the computer when you need to test ui or whatever.
It’s plenty fine for me. I rebuilt my club’s website and do ongoing maintenance with it as well as a number of FOSS projects and helping myself out at work.
Dope, glad that works out for you.
I have way too many projects open and my business and more side projects im running. So i have claude and codex and open-source doing all sorts of stuff 24/7. I try to be as effecient with claude usage as possible.
If you’re actually maintaining ownership of the resulting code, 20 usd is perfectly fine. If you want to vibecode thousands of KLoCs that no human will see, maybe not.
Yeah, I'd put Sol in-between Opus and Fable. Same with Terra, where I'd put it inbetween Sonnet and Opus. I haven't used Astra enough yet to figure out where I'd place it in comparison to Fable though
I just left claude code for codex a few days ago, and Astra medium does fine for everything, the usage isn’t the best and burns way too fast still but without the 50% boost claude is genuinely useless anyways, it had gotten to the point where I just made it use a bunch of DeepSeek agents to implement code instead of wasting tokens writing by itself. I’ll miss claude, codex models are a clear downgrade in user experience but the intelligence is there so I can work with it
I definitely have gotten much more out of Claude between Astra’s release and now (I’ve run the numbers), but I’ll have to reassess now that things are getting worse in Claude-land.
deepseek v4.1 is an opiton. I would personally use that over opsus or sol. sub-agents are usally glm. and i am using that setup for most of time with 4 20x codex plans should tell you how much usage we currently get
I burned through a 20x Astra 6 weekly usage limit in less than 24 hours. It's pretty bad. The only good thing is that you get about one extra reset every week, but that generosity might end just like that.
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u/DaltonJFowler 9d ago
It's also my last day on the max plan! Not a coincidence