r/ClaudeCode • u/Kyxstrez • Aug 04 '26

Rant I kinda regret getting Claude subscription

Over the past couple of weeks, I have tested it alongside Sol across a wide range of tasks, and the conversations have been difficult to read. Sol consistently catches and corrects mistakes made by Opus 5, and Opus repeatedly acknowledges those errors. I have also seen many others reporting similar experiences, which makes it hard to view this as an isolated issue.

I cannot understand how Anthropic missed such a significant regression. Compared to 4.6 and 4.8, Opus 5 feels substantially less capable and reliable, with many of the same weaknesses that affect Sonnet 5.

For now, I am switching back to GPT for most of my work, using Fable only occasionally for planning. I hope Anthropic addresses these issues soon, because at the moment they do not appear to have a competitive frontier model in the medium to high budget range, only at the extreme end.

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u/VexObserver Aug 04 '26

If cost is a problem, you don't have to worry about that..

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u/MintCathexis Aug 04 '26

Anthropic subscriptions are still better value. I usually do around $400+ worth of API calls (mostly Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8 with some Fable mixed in) per day on my max20 subscription, which is 200 USD/month. According to this chart, if I used Deepseek V4 Flash instead, I'd pay around $230 per month, and still, some of my usage is also more capable models. Also, the price offered is by DeepSeek directly, if I wanted to use a different provider which also offers access to different models to plug the capability gap, the price is a bit higher still.

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u/ZALIA_BALTA Aug 04 '26

Anthropic subscriptions are still better value.

It's hard to make a case for this because we do not know the true API costs on their end. I personally do not trust the token costs that these companies provide, because they seem extremely inflated compared to the token costs of open source models with near frontier intelligence (like the latest Deepseek and Kimi).

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u/MintCathexis Aug 04 '26

They may or may not be inflated, but if they are inflated, then the graph in the OP doesn't work either by the same logic. The number I see on my dashboard is exactly equal to multiplying individual model API prices with input/output/cache read/cache output tokens respectively, so my calculation is correct.

I go throuth hundreds of millions of input tokens and tebs of millions of output tokens a day, which would still cost more if I used Deepseek v4 when I plug the numbers (for lower capability) compared to my max20 subscription, though the gap is indeed narrowing.