I've had the cheapest personal tier for both since forever and I think I've run out of Codex quota _once_.

With Claude it's a constant battle of typing /usage after every iteration and trying to guess if it's enough for the next task or not =)

I accept that all the providers will do what I would consider unethical with my data and simply don't expose what I don't consider a price of doing the business I want.

The other criticism I see is "ask it what happened in 1989" but as a my use case isn't writing a high school history essay I simply don't care. Or believe one should seek those kind of answers from any AI. (If you're curious it simply cuts off the reply).

I fully appreciate that YMMV and what sits right for others will not align with what's acceptable to me. Anthropic and OpenAI both are in my badbooks as much as Z.ai. pick your poison as they say.

FAANG already did this all the time isn't it? Regardless of their policy. US is no better than China from my point of view. In this case, I see no difference between sending my prompts to US or China companies. At least China models are open source.