> Gemini 2.5 PRO | Claude Opus 4
Glad to see my experience is reflected elsewhere. I've found Gemini 2.5 PRO to be the best bang-for-buck model: good reasoning and really cheap to run (counts as 1 request in cursor, where opus can blow my quotas out of the water). Code style works well for me too, its "basic" but thats what I want. If I have only one model to take to my deserted island this is the one I'd use right now.
For the heady stuff, I usually use o3 (but only to debug, its coding style is a bit weird for me), saving Opus 4 for when I need the "big guns".
I don't have Claude Code (cursor user for now), but if I did I'd probably use Opus more.