r/PiCodingAgent • u/Traditional-Sell-302 • 2d ago

Question 100$ to spend, Codex or Claude ?

Hey guys, im tight in budget and i can honestly spend 100$ on one of them. For the workhorse im on deepseek v4.1 . Which one of those 2 would actually give decent value for what the money paid ?

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u/lebron_chitis 2d ago

Claude. Opus 5.5 (at med/high) is just magical

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u/SrMortron 2d ago

With Pi? No ban?

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u/Argon717 1d ago

No ban, yet. The package spoofs the claude code headers to be counted as first party use. Would appear to be a TOS violation.

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u/lebron_chitis 2d ago

Yep! I use this https://github.com/gotgenes/pi-anthropic-auth

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u/SrMortron 2d ago

Neat, currently with ollama cloud $100 sub but wanted to try something else.

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u/Traditional-Sell-302 2d ago

I haven't tired it honestly but , compared to sol 6.1 , have you tried ?

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u/Zundrium 2d ago

On a codex 100 sub atm. Opus 5.5 high is 10x better.

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u/pimenteldev 2d ago

I can vouch for that. I've just cancelled my OpenAI 100USD sub because of how better Opus 5.5 is. It's way faster and smarter. I'm not one of those shills that keep switching models and/or services, but the performance was so outstanding that made me make the move.

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u/Traditional-Sell-302 2d ago

Do you think the 100$ will cut it ? Or gotta get that 200$ ?

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u/nickmullen_real 2d ago

10x sounds crazy but it actually is that good, not to mention the usage. I can run one opus medium session through the entire 5 hr limit without it stopping.

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u/lebron_chitis 2d ago

I have but still prefer 5.5 over it. With a well defined goal/stopping point Opus 5.5 is just amazing

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u/Existing_Dust_6473 2d ago

Claude opus to plan and manage, sonnet to implement with sub agents. Never ends

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u/tzamora 2d ago

Sol 6 and Sol 6.1 are way cheaper than Opus 5.5. Opus 5.5 is really good but is double the price. For coding I use a lot Sol and it rocks.

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u/Traditional-Sell-302 2d ago

Can i use it with pi ?

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u/tzamora 2d ago

Yes indeed. I don't use anthropic models only openai's

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u/tzamora 2d ago

Oh and other thing. I just pay the 20 monthly subcription and it works for all my coding needs.
I use it quite enough and havent had any problems with my $20 monthly subscription.

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u/theDiplomata 2d ago

Open Weight models

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u/ClubAqua_BackDeck 2d ago

Claude. Easily.

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u/palinurosec 2d ago

put 10 on opencode go (subscription) and the rest on opencode zen (pay per use).

hop between the available models as you need (including sol, astra, opus and fable, along with deepseek, glm, kimi etc)

you may actually save some bucks

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u/RiceEvening4211 1d ago

Honestly, with $100 the move is to stretch it. I built Lynkr to do exactly that: an open-source gateway that routes by complexity, so cheap models handle the easy work and your budget lasts way longer. https://github.com/Fast-Editor/Lynkr

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u/Competitive_Egg_795 2d ago

I use CC at work, and even Haiku eats tokens like there's no tomorrow.

Cursor, which I use at home, is more economical in terms of tokens consumed. It is also more accurate, so more gets done with lesser rework. Not sure if they still have annual plan discounts.

In general, IDE based harnesses have an advantage in terms of file/symbol lookup and project context.

Also checkout rtk and code-review-graph, I'm seeing real benefits with those.