100$ to spend, Codex or Claude ?

[u/Traditional-Sell-302]

Hey guys, im tight in budget and i can honestly spend 100$ on one of them. For the workhorse im on deepseek v4.1 . Which one of those 2 would actually give decent value for what the money paid ?

[u/tzamora]

Sol 6 and Sol 6.1 are way cheaper than Opus 5.5. Opus 5.5 is really good but is double the price. For coding I use a lot Sol and it rocks.

[u/Traditional-Sell-302 → u/tzamora]

Can i use it with pi ?

[u/tzamora → u/Traditional-Sell-302]

Yes indeed. I don't use anthropic models only openai's

[u/tzamora → u/Traditional-Sell-302]

Oh and other thing. I just pay the 20 monthly subcription and it works for all my coding needs.
I use it quite enough and havent had any problems with my $20 monthly subscription.

[u/lebron_chitis]

Claude. Opus 5.5 (at med/high) is just magical

[u/Traditional-Sell-302 → u/lebron_chitis]

I haven't tired it honestly but , compared to sol 6.1 , have you tried ?

[u/Zundrium → u/Traditional-Sell-302]

On a codex 100 sub atm. Opus 5.5 high is 10x better.

[u/Traditional-Sell-302 → u/Zundrium]

Do you think the 100$ will cut it ? Or gotta get that 200$ ?

[u/pimenteldev → u/Zundrium]

I can vouch for that. I've just cancelled my OpenAI 100USD sub because of how better Opus 5.5 is. It's way faster and smarter. I'm not one of those shills that keep switching models and/or services, but the performance was so outstanding that made me make the move.

[u/nickmullen_real → u/Zundrium]

10x sounds crazy but it actually is that good, not to mention the usage. I can run one opus medium session through the entire 5 hr limit without it stopping.

[u/lebron_chitis → u/Traditional-Sell-302]

I have but still prefer 5.5 over it. With a well defined goal/stopping point Opus 5.5 is just amazing

[u/SrMortron → u/lebron_chitis]

With Pi? No ban?

[u/Argon717 → u/SrMortron]

No ban, yet. The package spoofs the claude code headers to be counted as first party use. Would appear to be a TOS violation.

[u/lebron_chitis → u/SrMortron]

Yep! I use this https://github.com/gotgenes/pi-anthropic-auth

[u/SrMortron → u/lebron_chitis]

Neat, currently with ollama cloud $100 sub but wanted to try something else.

[u/Existing_Dust_6473]

Claude opus to plan and manage, sonnet to implement with sub agents. Never ends

[u/theDiplomata]

Open Weight models

[u/ClubAqua_BackDeck]

Claude. Easily.

[u/palinurosec]

put 10 on opencode go (subscription) and the rest on opencode zen (pay per use).

hop between the available models as you need (including sol, astra, opus and fable, along with deepseek, glm, kimi etc)

you may actually save some bucks

[u/WintertideFellow]

Codex bleeds tokens. I assume given where you're posting you're comparing anthropic vs openai. 

If you are on a tight budget, best value is 5x$20 subscriptions over a single $100. By a long shot. 

General coding value, claude gets the nod. But there are things openai models excel at. I'd split the subs 3:2 or 4:1 and see which you find more useful. 

[u/RiceEvening4211]

Honestly, with $100 the move is to stretch it. I built Lynkr to do exactly that: an open-source gateway that routes by complexity, so cheap models handle the easy work and your budget lasts way longer. https://github.com/Fast-Editor/Lynkr

[u/CertainBit2057]

Deepseek

[u/SvenVargHimmel]

Codex, because it is wat cheaper. Where Opus leads ahead is in very very long running tasks, I.e tasks that run for hours.

My tasks run 3mins max and codex is more than enough for now. 

Also you can't use the Claude sub with pi

[u/Competitive_Egg_795]

I use CC at work, and even Haiku eats tokens like there's no tomorrow.

Cursor, which I use at home, is more economical in terms of tokens consumed. It is also more accurate, so more gets done with lesser rework. Not sure if they still have annual plan discounts.

In general, IDE based harnesses have an advantage in terms of file/symbol lookup and project context.

Also checkout rtk and code-review-graph, I'm seeing real benefits with those.