I’m wondering about the limits, the context window, and possibly the model’s thinking behavior. I have two $20 subscriptions (I had three at some point), and I’ve noticed that thinking effort, context window, and output length can be throttled. Sometimes, it even seems to happen asymmetrically between the accounts. It’s especially irritating when the model suddenly refuses to think, even on “Max” effort. This does happen, but it’s unpredictable. I want to know if things are more reliable and permissive on the $100 plan, or if it’s a waste of money. The unreliability of Claude has been torturous. I remember April 2026 and shudder, but the last few weeks haven’t been great either. The ultimate choice is between GPT and Claude. GPT models have better usage limits, but with the $20 subscription I have, the context window is way lower than Claude’s, both in the web interface and Codex. My project is a headless framework of around 300k tokens, with no UI, and it’s very architecturally novel and complex. I particularly like Claude 4.6 Opus. It has been great generally, but sometimes it’s been terrible because of the performance throttling. I’d really appreciate your help in making a choice I won’t regret. submitted by /u/cavebreeze
Originally posted by u/cavebreeze on r/ClaudeCode
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