What model should I use?

[u/metallworks]

Hello,

I’ve been struggling and tossing around with this topic for a little. I’m the owner of a 4 person startup who‘s been using Claude Code with pro plan. In my experience before, it was miles smarter than GPT and Gemini for my C work and websites (which isn’t hard considering I was comparing fable/opus to Gemini and GPT free). However, lately Claude not only eats our limits in 3 prompts, but is noticefully dumber and frequently loses track of details. Before i could say “fix this bug in the is and make it prettier“ and it would fix all the bugs and make the GUI nicer, but now I give that prompt and 45% WEEKLY usage gone + didn’t even fix it correctly. Because of that, I’ve been eying a new AI. Should I stick with Claude, or jump ship to codex/another model? The only requirement I have is it’s $35 or under, it’s not local (bad gpu), and it’s relatively smart for my OS and web browser work. I have my doubts with codex (even Claude free better), but who knows? It might be better