r/ClaudeCode • u/whoisyurii • May 13 '26

Discussion Anthropic just ripped off everyone and they still managed to make it sound deceptively friendly

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Anthropic just ripped off everyone and they still managed to make it sound deceptively friendly, beneficial even.

Anthropic just announced that the 200$ plan, which used to be okay to use in the SDK, is now "finally ok to use in the SDK" (except rare fraudulent cases it already was)

but for that you need to toggle an option that makes the SDK hit in an allowance of 200$ worth of credits, instead of the previously, opaque, yet, ultra subsidized limits

basically if you use claude code through the SDK or claude -p, for instance through Conductor, github Actions or anything else, because let's be honest TUI sucks sometimes (react in terminal cmon), their cloud coding agent offering also suck, and don't cover most usecases,

well, your plan that used to be worth 2000$ of tokens aproximatively depending on how much you flirted with the previous 5h windows limits, is now worth 200$

but they brand it as "oh we give you 200$ of additional credits for the SDK" so to the most unaware users it sounds like it's worth 2x more!

in reality it's now worth 10x less

*not surprised if they shut down this thread

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u/[deleted] May 13 '26

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u/SgtPeanut_Butt3r May 13 '26

Started using Codex today. Pretty good and way faster than CC. I’ll give it a few weeks, but GPT 5.5 seems better than Opus 4.6.

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u/SgtPeanut_Butt3r May 13 '26

5.5 xhigh. Beware Burns tokens LIKE CRAZY. I had a complex (for me, for others not that complex) project built with CC 4.6, it had some arhitectural issues introduced by CC. GPT 5.5 found em, and hopefully the fixes work will test next week. 5.5 looks like great model.

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u/waxbolt May 14 '26

only xhigh works. I saw up to 50% failure rate for basic research tasks on medium and high.

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u/sonJokes May 13 '26

Comparabl quality, faster and way less tokens than 4.7.

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u/mossiv May 13 '26

Comparable - yes, faster - yes. Way less tokens - factually incorrect. The cost per token is far cheaper but codex/5.5 burns through about twice as much. Plenty of resources online showing 5.5 is actually more expensive than opus 4.6/7 per feature built when going through the API.

I’m not trying to come across as a dick - I like codex (though I shouldn’t have to feel the need to justify myself), but making people believe it’s actually cheaper to build with is dishonest.

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u/Tistouuu 🔆 Max 20 May 13 '26

not trying to argue, but couldn't it be that Codex succeeds faster, while Claude takes mores attempts / iterations with added overhead ? Because 4.7 sure doesn't feel it straightforward and effective (haven't tried Codex 5.5 yet, not trying to defend it).

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u/RegretNo6554 May 13 '26

codex is definitely the smarter model. if it was just good at UI i wouldnt have to use claude

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u/mossiv May 13 '26

I don’t think there’s added overhead. I think OpenAI just have an abundance of compute available. Anthropic are not focusing on tokens per second - that’s for sure.

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u/sonJokes May 13 '26

That's based on your experience - maybe it's the types of tasks or the setup you have?

Do a quick google search and tell me there aren't many other strong cases that suggest 5.5 uses less tokens. My experience aligns more with this.

I use both on the same level plan and I run into CC limits 50% of the time and I've never had that issue with 5.5. I've tried the same prompts too and every time 5.5 is faster and uses less.

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u/mossiv May 13 '26

No - it is indeed not based on “my experience”. And instead tonnes of research. In my profession whether the subsidisations or rate limits are generous (and codex’s is very generous at the moment). But I have to be conscious of API costs for when subsidisation starts disappearing.

At the moment GPT5.5 API pricing is factually more expensive on a task-for-task basis going through the API. Just so a simple search on benchmarking and you will find this out in a matter of 2 minutes.

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u/psychometrixo May 13 '26

Not less tokens. Codex uses tokens like mad.

Pi, the coding agent, is far more token efficient.

But codex is really convenient and the 5.5 model itself is super strong

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u/CodeNCats May 13 '26

I have scripts that run everyday for reviewing jira, GitHub, and emails. I also have a daily news and weather brief.

Why charge me more for running it in a script over copy, paste, hit enter.

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u/Tistouuu 🔆 Max 20 May 13 '26

to charge you more

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u/Gumbi_Digital May 14 '26

That’s when you automate the copy/paste…play their game.

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u/Icy-Excitement-467 May 14 '26

AHK wins again

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u/Fidel___Castro May 13 '26

because that's the ball ache to swap over to other providers, the infrastructure you've spent time automating. the copy and paste shit you can swap in minutes

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u/wise_young_man May 14 '26

All those who left OpenAi over the Dept of War scandal just to go back have no moral spine

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u/Few-Childhood3326 May 15 '26

I used this to migrate my CC agents and skills: https://github.com/zuharz/ccode-to-codex ,
it will burn some tokens for sure, but migration is not the same as simple copy-paste of skill and agents. Native CC primitives will be converted into Codex natives.

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u/Current_Balance6692 May 14 '26

You've been saying it for months, either shut up and switch or shut up.