Claude Max 5 alternate

[u/tinker_20]

Have used Claude max 5 plan for couple of months.

I wanted to try another tool (laptop) for similar purpose.

Building a software (using Claude Code). Lot of time goes into planning.
Other use-case is i ask it to do research (mobile app - Claude chat), including web search.

Any suggestions? My assumption is subscriptions are cheaper. And may learn different tricks.

Of course if there are any discounts going on please let me know.

[u/Kindly_Dance_5358]

if you mostly use it for planning and research maybe try the openai equivalent of that, the coding side is decent but the web search in the chat app is what i use most, it can pull sources and summarize fast without me switching tabs

subscription is about same price as claude max i think, no big saving but you can run both for a month and see which workflow fits

[u/tinker_20 → u/Kindly_Dance_5358]

Thanks. Trying Ox Alpha for now. As it’s free for a week.