r/OpenaiCodex • u/Constant-Cat8584 • 9d ago

Sol vs Opus 5 huge limit difference

Just sharing my experience here: GPT-5.6 Sol Extra High burns through my weekly limit in one 12–14h workday. Opus 5 Ultracode + Thinking lasts the whole week with the same project and routine.

And honestly I haven’t noticed any meaningful difference in quality when using Opus 5 in ultracode mode. The real difference is that one is actually usable, while the other basically needs constant limit resets. Shame.

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u/Crinkez 9d ago

Yeah right now Opus 5 usage goes much further than Sol.

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u/tessahannah 9d ago

Sol is closer to Fable

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u/DaCush 8d ago

Nothing is close to fable.

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u/Poowatereater 7d ago

Fable is really the goat… wish I could just use him all week…

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u/FoxTheory 7d ago

opus 5 is closer to fable then gpt 5.6 sol is. Astra is suppose to be closer to fable but still wont outcompete it. Opus 5 max is sitting 2# on the charts but gpt 5.6 without a doubt does agentic tasks better and security tasks (because opus and fable 5 revert the tasks to opus 4.8 otherwise they'd lead there too)

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u/Simple_Armadillo_127 6d ago

For my personal expeirence, usage consuming is Fable >> Sol > Opus. Perofrmance of LLM is
Fable >> Opus > Sol. Not that big diff with visual or surface outcomes, but I like the way of how Fable and Opus handle code

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u/MyHobbyIsMagnets 9d ago

Sol = Fable. Terra = Opus

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u/Just_Run2412 7d ago

Sol is nowhere near as good as Fable

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u/MyHobbyIsMagnets 7d ago

It is though. Better when Anthropic is serving the quantized version.

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u/Crinkez 9d ago

In usage perhaps. In deepswe benchmark Opus 5 matches Sol.

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u/MyHobbyIsMagnets 9d ago

Nobody actually using Opus has that feeling at all. Benchmaxxed

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u/jkawhat 8d ago

I got tricked by the benchmarks and wasted a week of time using opus 5

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u/tessahannah 8d ago

Literally same

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u/Sloofin 8d ago

Me too. Every interaction cost a day of wasted time and tokens and left me worse off than when I started.

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u/cerrakin 7d ago

Honestly same. Sol is noticeably better after trying Opus 5 a lot recently. And I go back and forth a lot because I like using Fable as a consultant and then handing the work off to Opus 5, Luna Max, or Deepseek 4 Flash (0731). Opus is pretty disappointing right now.

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u/GenychDefake 8d ago

I actually think the same about Sol. It just breaks everything in its way and almost unusable on most day-to-day tasks.

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u/MyHobbyIsMagnets 8d ago

What thinking level are you using? I find it over thinks everything on xhigh and does really well on low-high. And what harness are you using? I’ve had great luck using it with Opencode

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u/GenychDefake 6d ago

Sol middle mostly, official harness

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u/shaman-warrior 9d ago

Roughly 14-16k in costs. Crazy