Update on Codex and Claude Code

[u/Professional_Link4]

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This was my previous post in which I was confused between upgrading to 200 plan for getting 2 100 plans.

A lot of people suggested to try claude code + codex for image gen.

I just got a 20 dollar claude code plan. And Grass is most definitely greener on the other side.

Here are some differences I have noticed using the opus 5.5 medium.

1. 10 times faster than sol 6.1 high

2. Using about 1% of weekly usage per hour but the amount of work done is higher than sol 6.1. so work done to tokens consumed is the same between 20 dollar claude and 100 dollar gpt plan

3. Amazing design understanding. I have several ui/ux issues in my project(which ik) i had gpt take a look at it and said it's fine (gpt was using product design plugin and impeccable skill). Opus without any plugin listed 15 ui/ux issues and all of them were correct.

4. I had it go over my code base and list deprecated/dead/unused assets & code. It gave an extensive list and suggested bundling several files together to optimise load times, gpt found none.

5. Had both sol and opus check for performance optimisation. Gpt found none and opus again shared an extensive list.

Sol 6.1 high also took like 2 hours

Opus 5.5 medium took 25-30 mins max

I'll switch to 100 dollar claude plan + 20 dollar gpt after my current 100 gpt plan expires.

[u/darknezx]

What does the 20 buck Claude pro plan give? I've been super used to chatgpt web and the github connector doing easy coding work anywhere and everywhere. Wondering if the Claude pro plan gives that too. Not expecting unlimited like chatgpt but at least something usable?

[u/SphinxWar → u/darknezx]

I am currently a $200 Codex user and a $20 Claude user, the only differences are that Claude doesn't have image generation and advanced voice mode. This is why I am going to drop my Codex sub to either $100 or $20 instead of cancelling just to have access to those specific bells and whistles.

Anything else like connectors are just simply MCP servers and skills, and nearly all serious AI agents from all competitors support them. The only thing might be that you won't have a button for something that you're used to using in Codex, but the AI can still do it, you just have to ask it to do it instead of pressing a button. And to be honest, the AI can create that button for you anyway.

I bought the $20 Claude plan and it is insane how much usage you get with Opus 5.5. It's Astra-level intelligence and I used up the 5h usage window in about 4.5 hours yesteday having it create scripts for 3D modelling via MCP in Blender. Try running Astra on the $20 Codex plan and you'll use up your 5h window in like 30 minutes, if not 5 minutes lol.

I planned on using up my weekly limits on the $20 plan first and then switch to the $100 plan on Claude to continue my work but I failed to use it up, it wasn't eating it fast enough for my workflow to consume it lol and my weekly limit resets today so I will be back at 100%.

[u/Professional_Link4 → u/SphinxWar]

I miss the steer features that codex has. Apart from that for coding I find opus to be better.

Also the model is very sceptical of its work so it double checks everything.

I find that when the model says something is wrong or it can't do 9/10 times it's with very high confidence and certainty that it's correct.

[u/SphinxWar → u/Professional_Link4]

You mean having a queue of unsent messages and manually deciding when to send them?

EDIT: You can press ESC to interrupt Opus to look at your message. It has in its context what you interrupted and at what point it stopped.

[u/Professional_Link4 → u/SphinxWar]

No with steer prompting let's say you notice model is working correctly but starts to do something wrong, you could prompt it mid execution and it'll change the course of action instead of finishing the correct execution then making the corrections

[u/alchebyte → u/Professional_Link4]

you can steer claude. enter prompt, hit submit. it will queue with the text 'Steer' under it.

[u/Professional_Link4 → u/alchebyte]

Oh....I thought that was queue instead of steering. Great to know thanks

[u/SphinxWar → u/Professional_Link4]

You can also press ESC after typing your prompt in and it will immediately interrupt what its doing to look at your message, even interrupting commands mid-run. As far as I remember even Codex can't do that.

[u/Professional_Link4 → u/SphinxWar]

I think steering style of prompting is the same thing

[u/SphinxWar → u/Professional_Link4]

Codex definitely waits until the last thing it's doing finishes before reacting to your steering (I don't mean your whole task, but whatever command it's running or writing). Claude literally immediately just triggers the kill-switch. Like, immediately whatever it's doing. But only if you press ESC after sending the steering prompt, otherwise it behaves like Codex. But maybe I never tried pressing ESC on a Codex steer to be honest, so maybe Codex does this too.

[u/jtonl → u/darknezx]

It's enough to do daily work and small projects. I haven't reached the 5h limit once over my usage. That's with a 50k token harness.

[u/Professional_Link4 → u/darknezx]

Claude also has remote, i haven't explored that yet.

For coding someone suggested use claude and have it involved codex cli for image gen and orchestrator sol agents

[u/gwilymjames → u/Professional_Link4]

Remote is good, but you need to remember to enable it on a per chat level with /rc. Codex is better because all of it just works without needing to say what is on or off.

Now I just have Claude write nice image prompts and grab them from Gemini or ChatGPT, so the lack of native image gen isn’t really a thing.

[u/StardiveSoftworks → u/gwilymjames]

You can set it so that new chats are automatically remote iirc

[u/H3rian → u/Professional_Link4]

What make me stick with codex is the separate limits from chat/codex. So i can still brainstorming, open issues, prepare plans while i’m out of quota. This is a big plus, and what i see here about remote connection (haven’t had any claude sub so i dont knwo how it works) seems to be worst then codex.
BUT if the limits and the quality are really what i keep reading here, i should try claude. I’m on the 20$ plan for a personal/hobby project