Comment by thekevan
3 days ago
Genuinely curious, why not use GPT Sol 6.1 high which has a better cost per task and intelligence ($0.32, 50) or Mimo 2.6 pro? ($0.13, 46) over GLM Max's $2.01, 45?
3 days ago
Genuinely curious, why not use GPT Sol 6.1 high which has a better cost per task and intelligence ($0.32, 50) or Mimo 2.6 pro? ($0.13, 46) over GLM Max's $2.01, 45?
Sol won't do some things. Like, GPT freaked out yesterday because I needed to vector trace a logo and it said it would be a rights violation.
Then I have to work down the list: Grok, then Muse, then if those fail I make the Chinese one do it.
https://imgur.com/a/8LVmpLV
Seems like you should flip your list and save time. I'm not sure why everyone is so ideological about tools. If it works well I use it. Refusals are a non starter.
Imagine if my table saw refused to cut out certain shapes. I mean once they are internet connected some brand will probably try that...but just why put up with it at all?
Not a fan of Elon but latest Grok gets shit done and isn't a narc model from Anthropic/OAI.
Feelings about elon aside, the fact that they’re using gas generators to run these is a dealbreaker for me.
Source, to preempt the inevitable musk stans: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexais-colossu...
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Not OP, but I've been trying out Sol 6.1 medium with hermes agent, and I have not been able to match usage costs to what I've been getting with glm 5.3 flash high.
Really don't know why, since I've offloaded thinking to the LLMs in this area of my life. Though even at medium, 6.1-Sol is noticeably better at most tasks I throw at it.
My experience has been that the "cost per task" estimate wildly underestimates the cost of top models on most real work, because the tasks (as I understand it) tend to be isolated bits of problem solving or code generation, which rewards writing code that works the first time and not generating too many reasoning tokens. Sol is great for both. However, a lot of real work involves tracking down bugs, working through tests, examining many parts of a codebase, refactoring... even with subagents and good tool use this tends to bloat context before the problem gets solved. Deepseek's absurdly low cache price really shines in these instances, but even GLM 5.3 Flash easily beats the top models on price in real world usage. Maybe that's different if you factor in subscriptions.
I'm OP and I have the Ollama basic $20/mo plan.
Been very happy with it although I will say Muse Spark 1.3 being free on OpenCode is my main model these days. If I run out of free credits on OC (which almost never happens) then I drop into GLM Flash 5.3.
Because it's not as good IRL. I find that DS Flash does just as good of a job on most things.