It was a little while ago but, GLM's code was generally about twice as long, and about 30% less readable than Sonnet's even at the same length.
I was able to improve this with prompting and examples but... at some point I realized, I would prefer the simplicity of using the real thing.
I had been using GLM in Claude code with Claude code router, because while you can just change the API endpoint, the web search function doesn't work, and neither does image recognition.
Maybe that's different now, or maybe that's because I was on the light plan, but that was my experience.
Claude code router allowed me to Frankenstein this, so that it was using Gemini for search and vision instead of GLM. Except that turns out that Gemini also sucks at search for some reason, so I ended up just making my own proxy which uses actual Google instead.
But yeah at some point I realized the Rube Goldberg machine was giving me more headaches than its solved. (It was also way slower than the real thing.) So I paid the additional $18 or whatever to just get rid of it.
That being said I did just buy the GLM year for $25 because $2/month is hard to beat. But I keep getting rate limited, so I'm not sure what to actually use it for!
No no! It was just the way you wrote it; but I think I misunderstood it.
> I found myself asking Sonnet [...] after the 4th time of doing that [...] just switched models.
I thought you meant Sonnet results were laughable, so you decided to switch to GLM.
I tried GLM 4.6 last week via OpenCode but found it lacking when compared to Sonnet 4.5. I still need to test 4.7, but from the benchmarks and users opinions, it seems that it's not a huge improvement though.
Last week I got access to Claude Max 20x via work, so I've using Opus 4.5 exclusively and it's a beast. Better than GPT 5.2 codex and Gemini 3 Pro IME (I tested both via OpenCode).
I also got this cheap promo GLM subscription. I hope they get ahead of the competition, their prices are great.
Did you have the opposite experience?
It was a little while ago but, GLM's code was generally about twice as long, and about 30% less readable than Sonnet's even at the same length.
I was able to improve this with prompting and examples but... at some point I realized, I would prefer the simplicity of using the real thing.
I had been using GLM in Claude code with Claude code router, because while you can just change the API endpoint, the web search function doesn't work, and neither does image recognition.
Maybe that's different now, or maybe that's because I was on the light plan, but that was my experience.
Claude code router allowed me to Frankenstein this, so that it was using Gemini for search and vision instead of GLM. Except that turns out that Gemini also sucks at search for some reason, so I ended up just making my own proxy which uses actual Google instead.
But yeah at some point I realized the Rube Goldberg machine was giving me more headaches than its solved. (It was also way slower than the real thing.) So I paid the additional $18 or whatever to just get rid of it.
That being said I did just buy the GLM year for $25 because $2/month is hard to beat. But I keep getting rate limited, so I'm not sure what to actually use it for!
No no! It was just the way you wrote it; but I think I misunderstood it.
> I found myself asking Sonnet [...] after the 4th time of doing that [...] just switched models.
I thought you meant Sonnet results were laughable, so you decided to switch to GLM.
I tried GLM 4.6 last week via OpenCode but found it lacking when compared to Sonnet 4.5. I still need to test 4.7, but from the benchmarks and users opinions, it seems that it's not a huge improvement though.
Last week I got access to Claude Max 20x via work, so I've using Opus 4.5 exclusively and it's a beast. Better than GPT 5.2 codex and Gemini 3 Pro IME (I tested both via OpenCode).
I also got this cheap promo GLM subscription. I hope they get ahead of the competition, their prices are great.