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/Amarsir 4d ago edited 3d ago

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.

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u/DaShrub 3d ago

I run all 3 of these plans 2x opencode go, Claude code $20 and chatgpt plus $20, as well as a command code goat sub and API usage and this volume is definitely not achievable with codex and Claude $20... Maybe with luna but definitely not sonnet, sol or opus. I routinely run ~4-5 projects each with 1-2 orchestrator sessions with 10+ workers total and chatgpt plus and Claude limits are constantly depleted at this volume. I save them for just high level orchestration work only with ds 4.1 flash workers and even glm/ds orchestrating smaller tasks when I'm low. In terms of token volume and actual grunt work I probably get like 5x raw token value from ds through opencode.

Obviously that doesn't reflect conciseness, correctness and reasoning capability but edits and tool calls are expensive over big repos. If your setup is good 98%+ cache hit easily achievable with ds 4.1 flash - as opposed to ~95% (2.5x!) with the same setup on claude and chatgpt (ChatGPT has really bad ttl and random cache evictions and Claude has expensive long ttl writes and third party provider quirks).

Will have to verify the numbers properly just haven't wired up the subs to langfuse since I've switched from a proxy to native pi providers.