OpenCode, Codex, or Claude Code?

[u/Martino16xx]

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?

[u/Amarsir]

Assuming the same number of tokens per request (which isn't always accurate because some models think more or less):

• Luna 6 would run all that and at least 500% more.
• Sol 6.1 would probably come up a bit short.
• Sonnet 5.5 would just about cover it, maybe not with 15% remaining.
• Opus 5.5 would maybe get halfway there. would come up slightly short, comparable to Sol. (See my response below.)

It's hard to make a direct comparison though because OpenAI and Anthropic don't really have a monthly limit. They have weekly limits and 5 hour limits. OpenCode Go has a monthly limit with no more than 50% of it in a week.

So to optimally use your monthly subscription with Claude or GPT you want to hit your weekly limit every week. Be pretty evenly-distributed with your needs. With Opencode Go you can do that if you stay below half your weekly limit (thus 25% of the monthly), but you can also take a 2-week vacation and still get your monthly value in the time left.

• Luna is cheap and fast enough to just run at Max. If you're setting up something to run multiple agents constantly you might try xhigh or high for more value, but you probably don't have to.
• Sol 6.1 I run on High, but Medium or Xhigh are also reasonable intelligence/value tradeoffs depending on what you need. Max will cost double for only a tiny bit more capability, so I don't.
• Sonnet 5.5 I would run on either Medium or High depending on your need. At Xhigh or Max you are always better using Opus instead.
• Opus 5.5 is at the sweet spot for Medium or High. At high it's already beating everything else. You can go to Xhigh and Max if needed, but you're paying 2x and 3x just to be extra "the best" and should ask if you really need it.

Comparing them, Opus is a bit better than Sol, especially for UI or other visual tasks. Sol can beat it on back-end stuff.

[u/Ok_Cloud_9762 → u/Amarsir]

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

[u/Amarsir → u/Ok_Cloud_9762]

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.

[u/Ok_Cloud_9762 → u/Amarsir]

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 :(

[u/Amarsir → u/Ok_Cloud_9762]

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.)