This is true of course and I don’t think these heavily subsidized plans will be around forever, but at the same time OpenAI is just less compute constrained than Anthropic right now as well so they’re in a stronger position to be able to offer these subsidies.
replyGPT models are also generally more token efficient right now and that helps too — you can go a lot further on a $20 subscription with Codex than Claude Code as a result of this.
Ultimately I think many day to day tasks just need to shift away from the latest frontier models towards models that are faster, cheaper, and still perform well enough & you can phase out subsidies while keeping total cost reasonable.
Ever since limits were doubled I never really ran into them on Claude code, but I get where you're coming from.
replyPersonally if I don't need a frontier model I use a local LLM. Or one of the Chinese ones through OpenRouter.
I care about the compute I can access today.
replyTotally understandable, but then you forgo your right to complain about enshittification tomorrow!
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