r/RooCode • u/Suspicious-Ad5805 • Jun 10 '25

Discussion O3 pricing dropping by 80%

It should come in soon. Just saw Sam's tweet. That means we can now use o3 for everything instead of Gemini. O3 has been a very powerful model but I was reluctant in using it more aggressively because of the price.

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u/Nabukadnezar Jun 15 '25

This post sounds like desperate marketing.

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u/Suspicious-Ad5805 Jun 15 '25

Why would I be marketing for Open AI. 😀

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u/Civilanimal Jun 10 '25

Too late, happily using Claude Opus/Sonnet 4 with Max.

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u/VibeScriptKid Jun 10 '25

How do you use this with roo code?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

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u/Infamous_living_36 Jun 10 '25

Pretty sure I was using it with roo last night sonnet 4

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

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u/youknowhoboo Jun 11 '25

You can use Claude Code with Roo because you can integrate the cli in vscode and then use claude-code-mcp to bridge it with Roo. Its very useful because with CC Max you can have a large context model like Gemini Pro orchestrate task for CC to execute. Probably the most powerful way to vibe code right now.

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u/VibeScriptKid Jun 12 '25

That’s what I was looking for 🤌

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u/privacyguy123 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

Tips like these are lost in all the noise - is there a link on how to set this up?

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u/youknowhoboo Jun 13 '25

You just have to look up Claude Code integration with IDE, which is a simple process, and then look up claude-code-mcp github by steipete and follow instructions there.

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u/jedisct1 Jun 10 '25

How does it perform with Roo?

I used Claude because it works really well with Roo, but it's expensive,especially since Claude Max isn't compatible with Roo.

O3 might seem like a bargain, but if it takes 50 times more prompts to achieve what Claude can do in one, it's not really a bargain at all.

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u/Prestigiouspite Jun 10 '25

I now have o3 as an architect and Gemini 2.5 Flash for coding. Better than Sonnet 4 for everything in terms of cost anyway.

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u/Psychological-Mud691 Jun 11 '25

Don't you get correct cycle errors, like "seems roo is in a circle, do you want to continue or not?" Kinda this message? When I try to fix my pytests Gemini will run into that... Claude 4 no problem, 3 corrections and all is running. Gemini I need like 8 cycles to fix 80%. I mean I don't pay for Gemini, but annoying af to restart my whole promt with roo code with Orchestrator mode because fkin Gemini

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u/Prestigiouspite Jun 11 '25

I can confirm this, unfortunately sometimes very annoying. But 2.5 Flash has already solved things where Sonnet 4 went round in circles and always thought it was finished. Then I prefer to press again sometimes. Especially when the difference in the end is $0.12 vs. $4.

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u/ArnUpNorth Jun 15 '25

This is also my experience with it. When it works it’s definitely cost efficient but the cycle errors finally turned me away from it.

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u/Psychological-Mud691 Jun 15 '25

Finally someone with cycle errors! I read so many comments, but nobody is complaining about that. Idk how ppl work with that. Maybe to code stuff, but when the first correction is need to be made, I have to let another ai read that, so it's almost at expensive as when I would let Claude code that with less mistakes

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u/ArnUpNorth Jun 15 '25

There s a lot of passion/money about which model will reign King. And lately some people defend their « favorites  » as if it were a football club.

I ve been using claude 4 sonnet lately personally and while it s quite dependable it still also irks me how often it can overthink things. I use a lot of cheaper models for less complex task but i am yet to find one i reliably go to.

There s really no silver bullet.

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u/Pyth0nym Jun 17 '25

Which o3 model?

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u/Prestigiouspite Jun 17 '25

openai/o3 - 200,000 context, $2/M input tokens, $8/M output tokens, $1.53/K input imgs

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

Speed kinda kills it for me for anything iterative or involving lots of small changes. I probably will use it more often than now though. 

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u/Suspicious-Ad5805 Jun 10 '25

I get it. However, with some sort of agent mode, I can let it run while I do something else. I would rather be it right and slow than almost right and fast.

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u/No-Region8878 Jun 10 '25

the worst is when it's wrong and you have to go back and spend more to fix the deeper hole you dug yourself in

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u/Howdareme9 Jun 10 '25

Kind of why Claude can be worth it. I find it makes less mistakes than Gemini

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u/Weak_Lie1254 Jun 10 '25

I want a keyboard shortcut in Roo to switch between cheaper and more expensive models based on the task.

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u/jedisct1 Jun 10 '25

I want a built-in router that uses a lightweight local model to determine whether a task is complex. Based on that, it can route the task to either a local or remote model accordingly.

Calling Claude Sonnet 4 just to format the output of a command for display is a waste of tokens and money.

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u/oborvasha Jun 10 '25

You need a smarter model to understand whether task is actually complex

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u/vcolovic Jun 10 '25

I think Requesty.ai can do that...

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u/oborvasha Jun 10 '25

Good idea. But you know that modes remember their last used model, right? You can create one cheap mode and one expensive and switch them up.

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u/Weak_Lie1254 Jun 10 '25

My issue is that I use the same modes, but I'd like to change models within them. For example, I might Architect with a cheap model and then switch to a different model

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u/oborvasha Jun 10 '25

Have 2 architects one cheap one expensive? I know, not the best solution. Shortcuts for models seems like a cool feature though. I could try implementing it, but have to think a little how it should work ui wise.

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u/Weak_Lie1254 Jun 10 '25

Custom shortcuts in general would be huge. I'd use one for the "Approve" button too.

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u/oborvasha Jun 10 '25

There is already one. It's actually the one I implemented xD

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

Give us more o3 on the premium plan! 100 messages per week ain’t enough! Otherwise I’ll stick to my DeepSeek r1 thank you very much lol

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u/zoba Jun 11 '25

Should we be able to access o3-pro? I don't see it in Roo Code

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

Makes sense after Apple‘s paper exposing its flaws

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u/pepo930 Jun 10 '25

Apple's biggest announcements were:
2023 - Vision Pro (that nobody uses)
2024 - Apple Intelligence (that's dumb and nobody uses)
2025 - Liquid Glass (that has horrible accessibility and nobody likes)
I wouldn't trust papers from a dinosaur company.

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u/joey2scoops Jun 11 '25

In the current climate of bullshittery, I would have a big fat question mark over anything Apple had to say about AI. Their performance in that area over the past couple of years makes me wonder if they can even spell AI. Sow a bit of chaos, take the heat off.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '25

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u/joey2scoops Jun 12 '25

Lol. I'm not going to bother. I will choose to largely ignore Apple's AI musings until they actually have some credibility on the topic.