I’ve gotta say my experience has been the opposite. I’ve been consistently surprised at how much mileage I can get out of the $20 plan.

My usage is pretty simple. I just use codex with an AGENTS.md to point it in the right direction. I have no MCPs and use Sol on medium thinking as the main model.

For longer sessions I tell it to launch a sub agent to make changes. Otherwise I just reset my context for each new task.

OpenCode and cheaper plans await if you can move beyond the Big Ai labs and their bluster

Start auto-compacting your context at 100k. Your sessions will incur exponential token usage if you don't draw the line before the 1m context limit. It's the best way to efficiently use a small token quota for long-horizon tasks.

Um, you can put in $20 for more tokens any time.

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