This is such a bummer for those of us living in third world countries. I’m not a casual user, I just can’t afford to pay more.

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estebarb 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Personally I have been using Deepseek V4 flash and it is enough for my needs. You can use OpenCode Zen/Go and also get access to many other models, including OpenAI ones. Writing purpose specific agents can make cheaper models close the intelligence gap with the most expensive ones

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ReptileMan 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are many providers and harnesses. You could go almost 90% of the frontier models for the fraction of the price. You have 3 more free days of ox alpha.

Geofencing has been quite good at creating feeling of being ripped off in the developed countries - from which the bulk of the companies revenue come from - that companies seems to be dropping it lately.

Anyway - China's advances seems to have caught the big 2 unprepared, so price war seems to be going on.

And there are Chinese resellers for frontier models if you are desperate for high end frontier tokens.

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dgellow 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Aren’t you better using other services than OpenAI if the price matters to you?

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danielpassy 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I’ve tried Claude Code and recently switched to Codex. I’ve found that $20 on Codex gets me 4–5 times more usage than on Claude Code.

I could burn through my Opus usage in 1 hour whereas with Sol, I can go 3–4 days.

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usef- 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

You can't burn through a week's opus usage in 1 hour. You might be comparing the 5-hour limit of opus with the week limit of codex?

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F7F7F7 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Oolama? That plan is more than generous for $20.

	▲	LUmBULtERA 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		How is that the case? ChatGPT not only gives a lot of Codex/Agentic usage, once you've run out of that you still have a massive quota of Chat usage that's entirely separate. You can still use plug-ins with Github, Google Drive, etc... using the Chat usage as well.
	▲	benjiro29 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		From my experience: * OpenAI was ~$170 per week in value * Claude was around $500 per week in value. * Ollama Cloud is giving me about ~$160 per week in value. So right now (thing constantly change in the AI world), its not more generous then Claude.

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usef- 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You might be thinking of API pricing? The subscriptions give you a lot.

	▲	dgellow 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh right, thanks for catching that