Early ArtificialAnalysis.ai results show GPT 5.5 is still the better bang-for-your-buck.
OpenAI solves tasks with about 50% less output tokens.
https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence=coding-index&int...
I give Codex a try with every new version, and we don't match, so this isn't true for everyone.
Claude would need to be much more expensive for me to switch.
Codex with 5.4/5.4 is great Idk havent seen anything more crazy with claude + more expensive
This is true but OpenAI has been slowly boiling the frog here, too. $20 and $100 on their plan doesn't get you nearly as far as it did two, three months ago.
I use their (newish) 5x $100 plan and I routinely run out of weekly limits about a two days before the end of the week.
This has also goaded me into upgrading to $200 once before... and then had them hand out limits resets to everyone. Argh.
My 20$ OpenAI sub gets me the same as my 100$ Anthropic sub. It really is the better deal.