The only AI subscription worth paying for costs €22, not €90

Goodbye Claude: why ChatGPT Plus is the only AI subscription that survives

Three months paying €90 for Claude's most expensive plan, and the result is comparable to talking to a Spectrum 48k. The degradation of Anthropic's models has been so abrupt that complaints are running into the dozens. Against that backdrop, the subscription many had written off is once again the only one worth recommending: ChatGPT Plus.

The collapse of Anthropic's models

Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Fable, the company's latest releases, have received harsh criticism for incoherent answers and disproportionate token consumption. Some users have gone back to Opus 4.8, an earlier version, just to be able to work. The perception in the technical community is that the company has sacrificed quality for estimulante ilegal or cost containment, and the result has been a public relations disaster.

The price/performance equation

Claude's Max plan costs €90 a month. ChatGPT Plus comes in at €22. With the right setup, OpenAI's option allows intensive coding use with no visible limits, an argument that carries more weight than the promises of its rivals. OpenAI isn't giving anything away either: its best moment was 2023 and it too is showing its age. But the price gap isn't justified. And there are free alternatives, like DeepSeek or Qwen, that are good enough for many tasks.

It closes with the jarring figure: a €90 plan delivers worse results than a €22 one, and two free options get the job done. Economic logic says prices should be falling. Instead, the bill keeps rising. The question is how long until the market reacts.