After trying it out for few week wouldn’t pay for it at all.

They lock you in behind proprietary coding harness and don’t give you option to use your own with their models.

Pi + gpt5.5 is better experience in every aspect, at least for me. Harness is better, if you miss any feature you just prompt the model to implement it as extension to Pi. Gpt5.5 feels like more solid model than opus ATM

I also don’t feel like discussion about clankers is ever very productive as it is very subjective. In the same manner as I wouldn’t pay for Claude I would never spend money on hardware from Apple and going into that discussion feels like same type of flame war waste of time but looks like I am starting it anyway

Yes, but theirs is a very efficient one.

Agreed, which is why I spend it on Dell & HP

Depends how you define efficiency, if it is by token consumption it is very inefficient one.

Fixed monthly subscription here (Max). Never got even close to the 5h session limit. Never cross 50% of the weeklies either.

What seems to be the problem?

I know this is bit off track however the subject was raised and is related to using Claude.

https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc

Codex plugin for Claude Code

Use Codex from inside Claude Code for code reviews or to delegate tasks to Codex.

This plugin is for Claude Code users who want an easy way to start using Codex from the workflow they already have.

I have no experience with the plugin, still waiting for a new project that could benefit where I can bring it clean.

I have burned through 5h session limit on 20$ plan in 2 prompts (20 min), max(x5) in 2h.
This was some time ago (few weeks) and maybe it is better now but that was enough to just cancel my subscription.

Re max subscription: I don’t see how outside running parallel sessions.

Not trying to change your mind, I fully understand. Just providing some addtional feedback.

That pain point is never binary, and it is never static.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have recently increased quota limits for some paid tiers. For example, I use Claude on the Pro plan with the 5x usage option. With the recent increase, I am no longer hitting the weekly limit, although I can still use more than 50% of the hourly quota on a single “Plan mode” when using the highest model with thinking and effort turned up.

I have also found that tasks I could not realistically do years ago became possible several months ago on the highest-level models. Now, with a good plan in place, I can do much of the grunt coding work on lower-tier models as well.

I don’t want to give Anthropic any ideas here…

I’m at the 20x Max plan and I usually spend it all every week. However I rarely then use the API with the extra costs to continue, so Anthropic can take that as a sign that somewhere in between there I would switch.

Well anything below max effort or chatgpt xhigh produces code of a quality that make me want to punch my monitor and be done for the day when I see it. It is also not uncommon that I for some tasks I spend 10+ prompts planning stuff, where I ask it to go through known good codebase and basically make itself a task specific skill.
Otherwise whatever it produces is so far from what I would consider production code ready. Using it for toy experimental projects is fun but at some point I have actual work that I want to be done and if I have to babysit it through every 50 lines of code where it takes off in wrong direction it is just easier to write it on my own.

Where I actually find it useful is going through the codebases and summarizing it for me which doesn’t justify frontier model at all as it can be done by local model in similar capacity.

That being said I also burn through openAI 200$ plan every week and they are way more generous than Anthropic