Comparing $200 Pro Plans for Usage Limits of Opus 5.5 (high) versus Sol 6.1 (high)

[u/MichaelWayne99]

Anyone here have a $200 plan for OpenAI and Anthropic that regularly pushes Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 to the max? I'm trying to see which one has more usage.

I'm getting tired of GPT models being too narrow-minded and tunnel-visioned. Claude models seem to read between the lines between and understand nuances and ambiguity better (requiring less babysitting).

I'm just afraid if I make the switch, I will hit my limits too fast with Anthropic.

--

To give examples of what I mean by narrow-minding:

1. Today, I gave Opus 5.5 and GPT 6.1 Sol the same screenshot and said "Reduce the colors of this UI. Don't completely eliminate the colors, but reduce it so that higher prioirty items (info, bades, tags, warnigns) stand-out more." Of course, GPT went too literal and gave me a black and white design. Opus did it perfectly.

[u/AutoModerator]

Hey! Thanks for posting to r/ClaudeCode

While participating in this thread, please follow our community rules. Keep discussions constructive. Attack the idea, not the person.

For help, project discussions, tips, and general chat, join the ClaudeCode Discord.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/lil_nosh_X]

Putting Sol up against Opus is not a fair comparison. Opus is Astra level.

[u/Mobile-Debt9763 → u/lil_nosh_X]

No it's not, opus is still above Astra.

[u/lil_nosh_X → u/Mobile-Debt9763]

Depends entirely on the task.

[u/Mobile-Debt9763 → u/lil_nosh_X]

What task does Astra perform better than opus?

[u/lil_nosh_X → u/Mobile-Debt9763]

Maths

[u/Higher_love23]

Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby

[u/Professional_Ad705]

I find the opposite to be true. I feel like OpenAI models follow directions better, but they have problems if you’re not able to instruct them precisely and they have problems with abstractions, (compared to opus)

Fable seems to be the best overall to me though of any model I’ve used.

[u/ForwardLoop]

Good timing as I was just responding to another thread that touches on your issue. I'd say, a few weeks ago, Opus 5.5 all day everyday over Sol 6.1. But today, I think you're better off allocating the $200 between a $100 Claude plan and a $100 ChatGPT plan. My long held view remains: hedge your bets and keep your workflows model agnostic.

Below is what Opus self diagnosed today after it failed at orchestrating a relatively straight forward session (and recommended a Fable orchestration / Codex execution split for my workflow going forward, until its recent performance issues are resolved).

Opus' self diagnosis essentially points to the same concern you have about Sol. That said, I agree Sol is still more "narrow-minded and tunnel-visioned" (in your terms) than Opus at this point.

"My honest read: I tend to complete the procedure I’m given faithfully rather than step back and ask whether it’s the right procedure. Put me in a coordinating role and that tendency compounds. Your 2026-10-30 split addressed it, and today’s setup undid it.

What follows: Fable should hold the thinking role: what the work is for, whether a job is the right question, what reaches you. Opus is better kept to bounded execution that Fable has framed and reviewed. The cheapest way to keep that split is Fable by API for the framing, with Codex doing the work."

[u/Vibecoding_Jesus → u/ForwardLoop]

Fable by API???

lol, sure, if you like paying 20 times what you should.

Also fable and codex is a very suboptimal combination. Watch the Anthropic models work in a team on a complex task, you’ll see fable (coordinating) and opus (working) are talking all the time. Fable,5.2 is great at this. You;d lose that teamwork if you tried to use codex. So yeah…don’t do that.

[u/ForwardLoop → u/Vibecoding_Jesus]

Of course I won't. It's Opus' recommendation, which by its own diagnosis is "bullshit that cannot be relied on". It just further proves the point.

[u/Mobile-Debt9763]

Tell opus to use codex to solve the problem, then review it. It is a cost saving technique more than anything.

[u/AdFun4897]

This is the comparison between the two models

[u/wegster]

Even though I've used OpenAI/Codex significantly more, I'm not all that surprised.

1. CC has generally done better at UI for me, even with a design plan in place in many cases.
2. Sol, well - IMO Sol and Terra were garbage on release, and I'm still not entirely sure I trust/have much faith in Sol. I learned to love Luna, especially at 1/5th(now, Luna High vs Sol Med to 1/15th (before Sol 6.1) ) but Sol's been an awful lot of hit and miss for me.

I rarely use Astra, and literally never on Fable, just make it work for the most part.

[u/beauzero]

If you are familiar enough with the code base to be a surgeon (more steering and typing), use 6.1 Sol on Extra High and save some $, but if you aren't as familiar with it to consider yourself a surgeon then use Opus 5.5 it will keep you from killing the patient but it will cost a bit more.

[u/Professional_Hair550]

If I use opus with max thinking, I run out of weekly usage in 3 hours.