For anyone on the fence, I was a hardcore CC user since it was released. I made the full switch to 5.6 sol and Codex about a month ago.

It's the better experience. The limits are way higher (I almost never burn through my $200/m plan), and the output is better than Opus 4.8 (Opus 5 is completely unusable for me).

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robertn702 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I had a very similar experience. The combination of Claude going down frequently and the hype around open source models was enough for me to swap my harness from Claude Code to OpenCode. Then it became trivial to test out different models, and now the rest is history. Currently using OpenCode with z.ai and Codex $200/m plans for all my work atm.

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nozzlegear an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also try a hundred bucks on Openrouter and experiment with the Chinese models like Deepseek, Kimi, GLM. $100 will last a good while, and it isn't tied to a single model or provider.

	▲	halfmatthalfcat 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I burned though $50 on OpenRouter in three days, this is with selective model routing based on tasks/strict AGENTS.md. A Claude 20x sub running Sonnet 5/Opus 5 and light Fable usage gets me through the month. It wasn't even close even though I wish it were.

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brotchie an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep, switched from CC to 5.6 Sol. Not using it in my day job (only side projects), but I can crank 5.6 Sol on Extra High "fast mode" and never have to worry about credits.

Not doing crazy multi agent swarms, but have yet to hit any limits during pretty intense weekend sessions.

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ramoz an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You're underselling how good/reliable 5.6 sol is. It's in the fable discussion league not Opus4.8

	▲	ryanSrich an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I haven't used fable since they brought it back. But based on my experience before they removed it, I would agree that sol is pretty close.

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SomeHacker44 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I use Claude and Antigravity CLI as an (Arch) Linux desktop system administrator a lot lately. Is Codex useful for that too?