Of course, I know that having a line-up of tons of models is quite confusing. Yet I also believe users on the paid plan deserve more options.
As a paying user, I liked the ability to set which models to use each time, in particular switching between o4-mini and o4-mini-high.
Now they’ve deprecated this feature and I’m stuck with their base GPT-5 model or GPT-5 Thinking, which seems akin to o3 and thus has much smaller usage limits. Only God knows whether their routing will work as well as my previous system for selecting models.
This is where I’m at, too. The o3 limits were more restrictive than the 5-thinking limits are now, but I regularly used o4-mini-high for complex-but-not-brain-breaking questions and was quite happy with the result. Now I have to choose between saving my usage with 5, which so far hasn’t felt up to the more complex use cases, or burn usage much faster with 5-thinking.
I suppose this is probably the point. I’m still not super keen on ponying up 200 bucks a month, but it’s more likely now.
Of course, I know that having a line-up of tons of models is quite confusing. Yet I also believe users on the paid plan deserve more options.
As a paying user, I liked the ability to set which models to use each time, in particular switching between o4-mini and o4-mini-high.
Now they’ve deprecated this feature and I’m stuck with their base GPT-5 model or GPT-5 Thinking, which seems akin to o3 and thus has much smaller usage limits. Only God knows whether their routing will work as well as my previous system for selecting models.