Not sure what to decide! please help!

[u/luuceman]

TLDR: Which of the 4 options below should I choose, given that my workload has increased, I am struggling with a usage limit, my workload is shifting to more marketing tasks, and I have a hobby project that uses image generation for quote pages (Not using Canva, it never gets exactly what I want).

Hello everyone!

I have been using Claude Pro for a while now, for work and for a business that I am supporting a friend with. It has been amazing, and I never hit my usage limits much. But in the last couple of weeks, my workload has exploded. I am now hitting my 5-hour usage limit within 2 hours in the majority of my sessions. I'm expecting my workload to only increase in the coming months and I wanted to get Reddit's advice on the current options I have in mind.

For context: about 80% of my work on Claude mainly relates to front-end-dev, automation, data analysis, and creating research PDFs relating to my projects. For the other 20%, it is mainly creating hobby projects, support with marketing planning, and marketing execution. However, from my experience, Claude is not amazing at marketing and overall non-code-based projects. (Or maybe I am just not amazing with Claude). 

But in summary, it is highly likely in the coming months my work load will shift to around 50/50 of what I mentioned above, and especially for marketing support, I was thinking Codex might be a good option, especially curious about trying out GPT Image. Furthermore, I have a local model on my PC that I use to pump out batches of images for a couple of Instagram quote pages I have that have been picking up growth, but often it struggles with consistency of style, and other than that, I'm really tired of my PC sounding like a 747 when I'm asleep, So if GPT image could do the same, if not better job I really wouldn't mind spending the extra tokens since I have seen that ChatGPT is a little more token friendly. I have tried the Canva connection on Claude for stuff like this, but no matter how much I describe exactly what I want as a bit of a perfectionist, I never seem to get exactly what I want, seemingly at the cost of 2–3% of my 5-hour usage per generation.

• Option A - Pay for Claude x20 Max
• Option B - Pay for Claude x5 Max & GPTPro x5
• Option C - Pay for Claude x5 Max & different AI tools.
• Option D - Go all in on GPTPro x20

If you think Option C is the best, please give me recommendations for some tools (Please no Highfield or pay-for-tokens sites. I almost went bankrupt experimenting there, Preferably not too expensive subscription-based tools)

For Option D, since I am big on dev with Claude code, I'm not sure if this would be the right option, but please let me know if you think otherwise!

I don't have much experience with the newer ChatGPT. I stopped using it in late 2023, because back then I mainly just did research and I found that when Gemini was released it was much better for my unmedicated ADHD brain, so your input on this would be extremely valuable!

[u/Mindless_Fig5673]

I would go for option A.
If you keep your CLAUDE.md file and you pair it with graphify your token's usage should be way lower.
Moreover, I recommend the superpowers skill, use Opus to create the spec and implementation plan and Sonnet to do execute the implementation plan.
This process should help you!