OpenAI o3-Flex + Cline & Roo BYE Gemini! This is THE MOST COST-EFFECTIVE AI Coding SETUP YET!
AI Summary
This video discusses the recent significant price reduction of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 (referred to as 03) model, now 80% cheaper, making it more cost-effective than Gemini 2.5 Pro for advanced reasoning tasks.
Key updates include:
- New pricing: 8 per million output tokens (down from 40).
- Introduction of Flex processing for 03 and 04 Mini, offering even cheaper rates (~4 output per million tokens) at the expense of slower, less reliable responses.
- Flex is ideal for asynchronous, non-production tasks like model evaluation and data enrichment.
- Comparison shows 03 with Flex is cheaper on output than Gemini, and even the standard 03 is cheaper than Gemini on both input and output rates.
- 03 also excels at tool calling, making it very good for root coding tasks.
- The video recommends using Requesty to enable and manage 03 Flex usage easily.
- Demonstrates usage setup with coding clients Klein, Rode, and Kilo Code.
- Mentions compatibility with MCP servers like Context 7 and Firecrawl for enhanced data fetching and web scraping.
- Shows a practical example of using 03 to build a Minecraft replica with HTML, CSS, and JS.
Overall, the reduction in pricing and Flex processing advances make 03 a strong, cost-effective model for advanced reasoning workflows, with Requesty providing a convenient management layer.