Ask HN: Does codex, Claude $20 subscription just seem unworkable now?

Not entirely. The free account is remarkably capable in quality, but not quantity. The €$20 account would be quite reasonable if I were simply doing more with it right now.

The Codex 20$ subscription is very much workable if you manage it well.

Not for me, I feel I get quite a bit of value from the $20 Claude subscription.

Not yet for Codex, for Claude, the astroturf bots are selling it as pretty sweet in comparison over the past 3 months as OpenAI as floundered. If you want a laugh, go see <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;codex" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;codex</a> subforum to see some basement dwellers screaming about the plus plans and codex offerings in general sucking - quite the entitled youtube commenters over there.<p>I use codex $20 right now and I only sip from it for homelab stuff and writing my slop bomb star trek fanfic series. I try to do 5.6 Luna Xhigh to stretch my usage.<p>I don&#x27;t like the 5 hour limit where I end up &#x27;wasting&#x27; usage (or saying to a long-running goal, &#x2F;goal resume until its out of usage), I&#x27;d prefer to be able to toggle that off, but that&#x27;s not possible right now.<p>I use Opencode Go with deepseek 4.1 flash 1017 for things I&#x27;m okay having the CCP (though I&#x27;m sure all state-sponsored actors are live watching all remote LLM resellers at this point) know about me, it gets a lot more tokens per dollar of mine as a result.<p>I plan to wait on codex long enough to see if the &#x27;unified usage&#x27; of chatgpt plus chat and codex pieces actually pick up how much usage I get in codex, or if anthropic comes out with a good enough image generator model, and depending on what happens with those two questions, I will stay with codex another month or move over to claude for the same price point.<p>Either way, I&#x27;m not burning $500&#x2F;month on get rich quick schemes (though I use premium plans and AIs daily at my day job) for my personal life because AI BUBBLE AGI ANY DAY NOW SKY IS FALLING, but I do keep one foot in the tub while the subsidy is around.