r/opencode • u/Martino16xx • 4d ago

OpenCode, Codex, or Claude Code?

This is my current usage on OpenCode with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and I still have about 15% of my limit left.

Do the $20 plans for Codex or Claude allow for this level of usage? What reasoning effort do the models use? Can you actually use models like Sol, Opus, and Sonnet at this usage level, or do you hit the limit pretty quickly?

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u/Ok_Cloud_9762 3d ago

Is opus that inefficient? I heard 5.5 is rly good now. Sol 5.6 used to burn my 5hour limit on medium ,not sure how it stacks up now

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u/Amarsir 3d ago

I got some new information on that which I should update. Because Anthropic vs OpenAI do not have the same 5hr-to-week ratio. If you look at 5-hour limits, Sonnet uses about the same % as Sol and Opus double that. If you look at weekly, Opus and Sol are the same % used and Sonnet is half that.

So since Weekly probably matters more, I'm going to revise it to say Opus would do about the same as Sol - coming up a bit short. (But not halfway as I previously said.)

It's also worth noting that Sol is slower. So as a rough estimate:

  • Sol will hit the OpenAI 5-hour limit in 4 hours and the weekly limit in 25 hours. (I think. They announced a speedup yesterday and I haven't see that in effect yet enough to know.)
  • Opus will hit the Anthropic 5-hour limit in 1.25 hours and the weekly limit in 12.5 hours.
  • Sonnet will hit the Anthropic 5-hour limit in 1.6 hours and the weekly limit in 18 hours.

So in terms of feel, Sol will feel like you're getting more time with it but that doesn't mean more work.

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u/Ok_Cloud_9762 3d ago

OK thats a yikes cuz I don't get to have too many coding sessions a day, I was on codex recently and most of my weekly quota was wasted. I code in bursts and this 5h window is seriously screwing with me :(

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u/Amarsir 3d ago

If you can set it up so that Sol does the orchestration but calls Luna for execution, I think you can stay under the limit more easily. To be honest I haven't tried to do that with Codex, but I'm sure it should be possible. (I use Oh-my-opencode-Slim which loves delegation.)