Since this seems to be a complaining form, let me say, “oh no I can’t use my gpt subscription for 5 days”, because I exhausted my weekly usage! It is April 30th and here is the message, " You’ve hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro ( https://chatgpt.com/explore/pro ), visit https://chatgpt.com/codex/settings/usage to purchase more credits or try again at May 5th, 2026 5:40 AM" and ironically, my Claude code usage lasted me a whole week. Is it a fair comparison? In this case maybe, sort of. I’m on the 100USD/m plan at anthropic and I have two 20USD/month plans at openAI. I use my anthropic plan twice as much and Claude code is faster than openAI, so for reasons of speed alone we expect claude to burn more tokens. Also claude has longer context length, so if you let your conversations run longer you’ll burn tokens faster with anthropic then open AI. Either start new conversations or compact. For best value keep your conversations under 200k tokens, I usually compact around 400k, Anthropic models support a million tokens. If we look at the API pricing: " GPT-5.5 charges $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, while Claude Opus 4.7 charges $5 per 1M input tokens and $25 per 1M output tokens, with a 2× surcharge for prompts exceeding 200K tokens." Anthropic is actually cheaper if you don’t exceed 200k tokens. So if the API prices are similar, I don’t expect huge differences in the subscription values. GPT might be say 25% better value but this isn’t obvious to me. I find gemini the worse value but you never here people complain about it, because the real battle is between openAI and anthropic, and I wonder how much of the negative sentiment here is bot driven! submitted by /u/s243a
Originally posted by u/s243a on r/ClaudeCode