Comment by bashtoni
15 hours ago
After hitting Claude limits today I spent the afternoon using OpenCode + GLM 5.1 via OpenRouter and I was very impressed.
OpenCode picked up my CLAUDE.md files and skills straight away, and I got similar performance to Opus 4.6.
How much did it cost for how long?
~$1/hr over 4 hours.
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to clearing the context, and I also tend to provide the right files to work on (or at least the right starting point).
I had seen prior to using the model that it starts producing much worse results when the context used is larger, so my usage style probably helps getting better results. I work like this with Claude Code anyway, so it wasn't a big change.
https://z.ai/subscribe
Many of us got the annual Lite plan when they had the $28 discount. But even at $120 I think it's a good deal.
Aliyun had GLM-5, Kimi K2.5 and a few others for ¥40 (~€5) per month. Regrettably, that plan is not longer available for new users, but the new plan is still ~€25.
Z.ai seems crazy expensive in comparisons, although I wonder if inference speeds have a noticeable difference.
I am trying to take this in the more giving way possible, anyone remotely considering that subscription should go on reddit and see all the people experiencing outages constantly and insanely slow speeds when it does work.
I have been wanting to subscribe but based on how awful the experience is for most people, I just can’t pull the trigger
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