Claude Opus 5.5 weekly quota outlasts GPT-6 Astra by tenfold

The author tracked token usage over three days and estimated that a $200 Claude plan delivers about $3,400 of API-equivalent value per week, versus about $1,700 for a $200 Codex plan.

With cache hit rates of 98.94% for Claude Code and 98.34% for Codex, the author says GPT-6 Astra costs roughly five times more than Claude Opus 5.5, making the Claude weekly quota last about ten times longer.