Comment by cmrdporcupine
3 days ago
Codex $20 is a good deal but they have nothing inbetween $20 and $200.
The $20 Anthropic plan is only enough to wet my appetite, I can't finish anything.
I pay for $100 Anthropic plan, and keep a $20 Codex plan in my back pocket for getting it to do additional review and analysis overtop of what Opus cooks up.
And I have a few small $ of misc credits in DeepSeek and Kimi K2 AI services mainly to try them out, and for tasks that aren't as complicated, and for writing my own agent tools.
$20 Claude doesn't go very far.
Idk why the gap is so big, surely a bunch of people would also pay 50$ a month across multiple vendors for medium amount of tokens.
Indeed I would consider switching to Codex completely if a) they had a $100 or $50 membership b) they really worked on improving the CLI tool a lot more. It's about 4-6 months behind Claude Code