Same experience. I had the $19 monthly plan for experimenting and running benchmarks, but it was a uselessly small amount of usage, a single task would blast through the whole five hour limit and a big chunk of the weekly limit. All of the US provider plans are remarkably more generous (though OpenAI plans have gotten a lot stingier lately, where they used to be the most generous).

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pjerem 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t agree. I tried the $20 Claude Plan and was able to reach the 5 hour limit in maybe one prompt.

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jamiejquinn 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Would you mind sharing that prompt? I'm struggling to even hit 10% of my Claude quota! I don't want more work out of it TBH but I'm interested...

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LeFantome 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I have been using DS Flash 4.1 pretty heavily. It runs for hours and hours and is pretty cheap.

I realized the other day that I had a $30 a month Claude subscription. So, I fired it up all excited and tried Opus 5.5 on a codebase I was already in with DS. After about 30 minutes I hit a 5 hour limit. The next day I tried again and the same thing happened. And it felt much slower to boot. I was super disappointed.

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ricardobeat an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Did you use Fable, set Opus 5.5 to xhigh, or use 'ultracode' / workflows? That's the only way this will happen.

In my experience a single 5 hour allowance in the 20eur Claude plan equals about $10 in Deepseek 4.1 Flash API usage. DS is a lot more token hungry and takes 3x-4x longer. The subscription is way cheaper, probably around $200/month worth of DS, just stick to Opus low and Sonnet for most tasks.

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r_lee 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

do you use their proprietary platform API?

and how are costs like for your usual workflows/etc.?

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jmspring 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is a $30/mo Claude subscription?

	▲	arcanemachiner 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you're not paying in USD. ;)

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epolanski an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

DS 4.1 is basically endless, even if you paid for APIs you will hardly touch some prices.

But it's slow.

I don't think I can any longer appreciate any major difference in "intelligence" between models for most tasks but Opus is consistently much faster than competitors at finishing tasks and keeping me in the loop.

Of course excluding ultra code, the you will wait 50 minutes for a minor refactor.

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

That's surprising, I had the exact same experience as GP. I dropped my Kimi sub this month, but I'm keeping claude because I can use Opus 4.8 basically endlessly. Even Opus 5.5 doesn't drain the usage that much, though I rarely use it because it refuses to do anything cyber-related.

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SwellJoe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, the $20 Claude plan is stingier than one might like, but not as stingy as Kimi. I think the best $20 subscription deal these days is probably from Google, now that Gemini 4 Argon exists and is an acceptably high quality model for coding. It's got quite generous usage and includes some other Google account upgrades (though I know some people don't use their regular account for Google AI for fear of account suspension or whatever, so the extra storage and other account upgrades are not a useful thing). I can use it pretty heavily without ever running into caps. The $20 ChatGPT plan used to be similarly generous, but no more.

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copperx 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Gemini isn't generous at all 5-10 Argon prompts and that's it.

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SwellJoe an hour ago | parent [-]

When I've most recently done the same tasks across multiple providers I have a subscription to, I found the order of generosity of them was something like Gemini->Claude->ChatGPT->Kimi. OpenAI used to be a lot more generous than all of them, but that ended recently, and now it's quite stingy in the $20 plan. What competitive model has a more generous subscription than Gemini?

	▲	copperx 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Opencode Go, if you think DS 4.1 is competitive.

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dzink 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is a LOT more efficient on claude code. Takes forever to run out of credits, and a whole lot of useful code gets generated. The web Ui reconstructs code while claude code just tweaks it.

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arcanemachiner 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How long ago was this? The amount of usage they give you for a given plan seems to change over time, and the Claude limits seem to be more favourable recently.

	▲	Wowfunhappy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think the limit changed per se, but Opus 5.5 consumes a lot less usage than 5.0 did, so it goes further.

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

I had the same experience with OpenAI's 20$ one, literally one prompt to do some code analysis, it didn't even complete it.

And that was 6.1 sol xhigh, not astra max..

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fastball an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Was the prompt "Re-implement Call of Duty 4, make no mistakes"?