... signed up for it, used it twice, and forgot about it. $20/month for 3 months = $60 wasted. But the bigger insight was about my other tools: - Claude: I was hitting 80%+ of my limit almost every day. Worth every penny. - Cursor: Using about 60% of fast requests. Solid value. - ChatGPT: Maybe 20% usage. I was using it mostly as a Claude backup when rate-limited. - Copilot: Under 10%. VS

... context . GPT-5 mini A budget-friendly workhorse delivering roughly 80 percent of flagship performance at lower cost and latency. Priced at $0.25 per 1 M input tokens and $2 per 1 M output tokens . GPT-5 nano The penny-pincher s dream for massive-scale classification or trigger-phrase detection. Micro-tasks run at $0.05 per 1 M input tokens and $0.40 per 1 M output tokens, with micro-millisecond latency. Six ChatGPT upgrades you ll actually notice Alongside ... ... like button. Benchmarks, benchmarks, benchmarks Benchmarks should always be taken with a grain of salt . They are effectively a snapshot of a models capabilities under near perfect conditions. Sort of like the Big Mac you see on the ads vs