Comment by timpera

15 hours ago

Which plan did you choose? I am subscribed to both and would love to stick with Claude only, but Claude's usage limits are so tiny compared to ChatGPT's that it often feels like a rip-off.

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MPSimmons  15 hours ago

I signed up for Claude two weeks ago after spending a lot of time using Cline in VSCode backed by GPT-5.x. Claude is an immensely better experience. So much so that I ran it out of tokens for the week in 3 days.

I opted to upgrade my seat to premium for $100/mo, and I've used it to write code that would have taken a human several hours or days to complete, in that time. I wish I would have done this sooner.

  • manmal  14 hours ago

    You ran out of tokens so much faster because the Anthropic plans come with 3-5x less token budget at the same cost.

    Cline is not in the same league as codex cli btw. You can use codex models via Copilot OAuth in pi.dev. Just make sure to play with thinking level. This would give roughly the same experience as codex CLI.

andsoitis  14 hours ago

Pro. At $17 per month, it is cheaper than ChatGPT's $20.

I've just switched so haven't run into constraints yet.

  • toraway  10 hours ago

    The usage limits for Codex CLI vs Claude Code aren't even in the same universe. Maybe it's not a problem on the web, but I never use the actual chatbots so I have no idea tbh.

    You get vastly more usage at highest reasoning level for GPT 5.3 on the $20/mo Codex plan, I can't even recall the last time I've hit a rate limit. Compared to how often I would burn through the session quota of Opus 4.6 in <1hr on the Claude Pro $20/mo plan (which is only $17 if you're paying annually btw).

    I don't trust any of these VC funded AI labs or consider one more or less evil than the other, but I get a crazy amount of value from the cheap Codex plan (and can freely use it with OpenCode) so that's good enough for me. If and when that changes, I'll switch again, having brand loyalty or believing a company follows an actual ethical framework based on words or vibes just seems crazy to me.