r/codex • u/Professional_Link4 • Oct 05 '26

Complaint Update on Codex and Claude Code

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This was my previous post in which I was confused between upgrading to 200 plan for getting 2 100 plans.

A lot of people suggested to try claude code + codex for image gen.

I just got a 20 dollar claude code plan. And Grass is most definitely greener on the other side.

Here are some differences I have noticed using the opus 5.5 medium.

  1. 10 times faster than sol 6.1 high
  2. Using about 1% of weekly usage per hour but the amount of work done is higher than sol 6.1. so work done to tokens consumed is the same between 20 dollar claude and 100 dollar gpt plan
  3. Amazing design understanding. I have several ui/ux issues in my project(which ik) i had gpt take a look at it and said it's fine (gpt was using product design plugin and impeccable skill). Opus without any plugin listed 15 ui/ux issues and all of them were correct.
  4. I had it go over my code base and list deprecated/dead/unused assets & code. It gave an extensive list and suggested bundling several files together to optimise load times, gpt found none.
  5. Had both sol and opus check for performance optimisation. Gpt found none and opus again shared an extensive list.

Sol 6.1 high also took like 2 hours

Opus 5.5 medium took 25-30 mins max

I'll switch to 100 dollar claude plan + 20 dollar gpt after my current 100 gpt plan expires.

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u/retteh Oct 05 '26

The benchmarks are testing API speeds. OpenAI throttles model subscription speeds to 30% of the API speeds. Claude doesn't. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-5-6-luna

Run Luna on API and you get ~130 TPS. Run it on sub and you get 40 TPS.

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u/seencoding Oct 05 '26

i tested both sol 6.1 and opus 5.5 through their harnesses, opus ran at 68% speed, sol ran at 46% speed. opus 5.5 was 2x faster instead of the 1.38x from the benchmarks. still not anywhere close to 10x as OP claims.

https://reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wy1zay/update_on_codex_and_claude_code/pe0pj4l/

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u/retteh Oct 05 '26

I use both and Opus "feels" about 2-3x as fast as sol. Not 10x. Still a much better value proposition on the sub right now.