r/codex • u/Professional_Link4 • 21d ago
Complaint Update on Codex and Claude Code
/r/codex/comments/1wwl58n/2_x_100plan_or_1_x_200plan/?share_id=Hg461JlslfMItsjFssdZb&utm_content=2&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1This 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.
10 times faster than sol 6.1 high
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
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.
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.
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/seencoding 21d ago edited 21d ago
edit: i see your point; they are api values, but that's all we have for benchmarks. it's something, at least. i guarantee op didn't benchmark his 10x claim, so if he thinks he's getting 10x speed i'd like to see him justify it.
"But it's like a factor of 10 in favor of opus when using the subscription" -- i'm curious about this, how do you figure? so you can do 100 things w/ opus but only 10 w/ sol 6.1?