Comment by cmrdporcupine

19 hours ago

> Of course if you convert those values to actual request cost, GLM 5.2 will probably beat GPT 5.5/Opus 4.8, but speed matters for a lot of people, I think.

GLM5.2 ends up being far more expensive than I thought it would be when I tried it on openrouter. I ground through $5 USD worth of tokens quite quickly.

And this was high, not max.

Using these open models really makes you realize how subsidized Anthropic and OpenAi's subscription plans are.

  • Absolutely. You can also run codeburn or ccusage and they'll scan the session files and tell you how much you burnt in API token pricing equivalent.