I recently got Claude Max 5x, after using ChatGPT Pro 20x for a while, and I find the Claude Max value really good. For $90/m, the weekly usage is great AND you get $100 of API credits per month too.
I do believe Claude Max 5x gives best quality/value at the moment out of all plans/providers.
I can't trust models like V4.1 Flash to do stuff for me without supervision. Yes, they are good for coding and some API-only processing tasks, but not as a main agentic model like Opus 5.5 or GPT-6 Astra are, which can actually do things that function properly without much fidgeting or intervention.
https://aibenchy.com/compare/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-high...
Artificial analysis has them benching similarly on intelligence, but with deepseek 4.1-flash having a decisive victory in time-to-first-output-token and end-to-end-response-time [1].
Combined these make the interactive experience of using deepseek 4.1-flash significantly more enjoyable than haiku IMO.
[1] https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash-101...