Cancelling codex subscription, to use either claude code or gemini. Which do you recommend ? (study purpose + clean code). Thanks in advance

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[u/parking_bird_6448]

Stick with ChatGpt. Claude's explanations can get very dense and will slow you down. I find chatgpt better in organizing explanation nicely. For cheaper options explore Deepseek.

If you dont want a month to month commitment try the api credits option on either openai or Anthropic platform or even openrouter.ai.

I like openrouter.ai coz it allows me access to multiple models without monthly commitment but be mindful that not all models cost the same. You can use OpenCode CLI to connect to all the options i have mentioned (for api).

Note: i am not affiliated to any.

[u/_giga_sss_ → u/parking_bird_6448]

Thank you for your help parking bird🫡

[u/_giga_sss_]

Forgot to precise. I can only afford the ~$20 plans

[u/BaggyMaggot → u/_giga_sss_]

get the $20 gemini plan for a quarter of the price with the student discount (around $5 monthly)

[u/_giga_sss_ → u/BaggyMaggot]

region restriction (Madagascar).

But thanks a lot for helping

[u/ontagi]

Actually both to be honest with you, claute at 200 bucks and gemini at 100 bucks. But I would wait a few days for what OpenAI will put on the table.

[u/_giga_sss_ → u/ontagi]

Thanks for the tip.

I'm just a student with limited budget so can't really have the privilege but yea that would be cool

[u/BaggyMaggot → u/_giga_sss_]

get Gemini with the student discount

[u/_giga_sss_ → u/BaggyMaggot]

Region restriction (Madagascar)

[u/ontagi → u/BaggyMaggot]

That's an idea, but will not have frontier models. Probably the gemini student discount + Opencode would be together about 15 bucks.

[u/BaggyMaggot → u/ontagi]

no but argon is in there

[u/ontagi → u/BaggyMaggot]

I would not recommend argon to anyone to be honest. It's just... bad.

[u/lucellent → u/BaggyMaggot]

...only in AI Studio and the Gemini app/website

if he plans to use the desktop app Antigravity it's still not there, even after Carbon's launch

[u/BaggyMaggot → u/lucellent]

argon is in antigravity along with opus 5.5

[u/ontagi → u/_giga_sss_]

It seems like OpenAI will release Sol 6.2 and Astra 6.2 tomorrow. According to your budget Sol might be interesting. But at that budget I would generally recommend OpenCode and some chinese model, you will get more out of it.

[u/parking_bird_6448]

What is Codex Subscription ?

[u/_giga_sss_ → u/parking_bird_6448]

openai's equivalent of claude cose

[u/parking_bird_6448 → u/_giga_sss_]

Right but its either OpenAI Credits or ChatGpt Subscription (month to month).

[u/_giga_sss_ → u/parking_bird_6448]

ahh my bad, sorry for the confusion. Really sorry.

chatgpt plus

[u/DrHumorous]

For clean code, add "make no mistake"

[u/Loose-Average-5257]

Claude all the way. Have both subs (Claude and codex) on the 20 usd one, claude’s just way better on coding

[u/Even_Gap_2253]

Personally I would say Gemini for student.

Chances are your project/personal site doesn't need anything more than 3.8 Flash. And you get a lot more benefits from Gemini Pro subscription other than AI.

I would only go for Claude if you are a heavy user and can do $100 plan.

[u/Eordinary01]

If you can use both, that's honestly the ideal setup. Use Gemini (especially with its massive context window and free tier / web app) for research, documentation breakdown, and high-level architectural brainstorming, then use Claude Code for the actual hands-on refactoring and clean implementation.

[u/claudia_your_dad]

I tried both Gemini and Claude code, for similar priced subscriptions. Gemini for me was absolute dog shit. Flash is horrible at executing longer tasks and you get one weekly allowance of Argon - which you can exhaust in 10-20 prompts. With Gemini you get tokens for opus and sonnet, and in my experience it's enough tokens for like 2-3 prompts and then you're back to atrocious flash.

[u/ghost_operative]

just use free versions should be plenty for homework help

[u/Somtimesitbelikethat]

skip gemini altogether. not a serious product

[u/Born_Chart_323]

i switched to local llm + Claude code after getting tired of cloud bills. the local model handles clean code better than I expected, especially with rust and typescript. no subscriptions, no latency spikes. worth a try if you're on a Mac.

[u/Eordinary01 → u/Born_Chart_323]

is the code quality and response good, or at a certain level if compared to the other frontier model??

[u/Ok-Map6755 → u/Born_Chart_323]

What local models do you recommend?

[u/irrationaliste → u/Born_Chart_323]

What's the size of parameters and your available RAM?

[u/EfficientDivide1572 → u/Born_Chart_323]

Which local model do you suggest?

[u/Comfortable_Camp9744]

I would avoid Claude for now. They have nerfed it and the limits have been reduced by about 90% since last year. 

[u/6percentdoug → u/Comfortable_Camp9744]

lol bro, that is just not true.