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This is such a bummer for those of us living in third world countries. I’m not a casual user, I just can’t afford to pay more.

dgellow 1mo ago
Aren’t you better using other services than OpenAI if the price matters to you?
- usef- 1mo ago
  You might be thinking of API pricing? The subscriptions give you a lot.
  - dgellow 1mo ago
    Oh right, thanks for catching that
- danielpassy 1mo ago
  I’ve tried Claude Code and recently switched to Codex. I’ve found that $20 on Codex gets me 4–5 times more usage than on Claude Code. I could burn through my Opus usage in 1 hour whereas with Sol, I can go 3–4 days.
  - F7F7F7 1mo ago
    Oolama? That plan is more than generous for $20.
    - LUmBULtERA 1mo ago
      How is that the case? ChatGPT not only gives a lot of Codex/Agentic usage, once you've run out of that you still have a massive quota of Chat usage that's entirely separate. You can still use plug-ins with Github, Google Drive, etc... using the Chat usage as well.
    - benjiro29 1mo ago
      From my experience: * OpenAI was ~$170 per week in value * Claude was around $500 per week in value. * Ollama Cloud is giving me about ~$160 per week in value. So right now (thing constantly change in the AI world), its not more generous then Claude.
  - usef- 1mo ago
    You can't burn through a week's opus usage in 1 hour. You might be comparing the 5-hour limit of opus with the week limit of codex?
estebarb 1mo ago
Personally I have been using Deepseek V4 flash and it is enough for my needs. You can use OpenCode Zen/Go and also get access to many other models, including OpenAI ones. Writing purpose specific agents can make cheaper models close the intelligence gap with the most expensive ones
ReptileMan 1mo ago
There are many providers and harnesses. You could go almost 90% of the frontier models for the fraction of the price. You have 3 more free days of ox alpha. Geofencing has been quite good at creating feeling of being ripped off in the developed countries - from which the bulk of the companies revenue come from - that companies seems to be dropping it lately. Anyway - China's advances seems to have caught the big 2 unprepared, so price war seems to be going on. And there are Chinese resellers for frontier models if you are desperate for high end frontier tokens.

dgellow 1mo ago

Aren’t you better using other services than OpenAI if the price matters to you?

usef- 1mo ago
You might be thinking of API pricing? The subscriptions give you a lot.
- dgellow 1mo ago
  Oh right, thanks for catching that
danielpassy 1mo ago
I’ve tried Claude Code and recently switched to Codex. I’ve found that $20 on Codex gets me 4–5 times more usage than on Claude Code. I could burn through my Opus usage in 1 hour whereas with Sol, I can go 3–4 days.
- F7F7F7 1mo ago
  Oolama? That plan is more than generous for $20.
  - LUmBULtERA 1mo ago
    How is that the case? ChatGPT not only gives a lot of Codex/Agentic usage, once you've run out of that you still have a massive quota of Chat usage that's entirely separate. You can still use plug-ins with Github, Google Drive, etc... using the Chat usage as well.
  - benjiro29 1mo ago
    From my experience: * OpenAI was ~$170 per week in value * Claude was around $500 per week in value. * Ollama Cloud is giving me about ~$160 per week in value. So right now (thing constantly change in the AI world), its not more generous then Claude.
- usef- 1mo ago
  You can't burn through a week's opus usage in 1 hour. You might be comparing the 5-hour limit of opus with the week limit of codex?

estebarb 1mo ago

Personally I have been using Deepseek V4 flash and it is enough for my needs. You can use OpenCode Zen/Go and also get access to many other models, including OpenAI ones. Writing purpose specific agents can make cheaper models close the intelligence gap with the most expensive ones

ReptileMan 1mo ago

There are many providers and harnesses. You could go almost 90% of the frontier models for the fraction of the price. You have 3 more free days of ox alpha. Geofencing has been quite good at creating feeling of being ripped off in the developed countries - from which the bulk of the companies revenue come from - that companies seems to be dropping it lately. Anyway - China's advances seems to have caught the big 2 unprepared, so price war seems to be going on. And there are Chinese resellers for frontier models if you are desperate for high end frontier tokens.