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

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.

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

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.

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?

Oolama? That plan is more than generous for $20.

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.

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.

You might be thinking of API pricing? The subscriptions give you a lot.

Oh right, thanks for catching that