Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT

4 pointsJsttan2h ago5 comments

With the lowering usage limit in Claude, I am thinking of jumping ship to Chinese AI, since the benchmark is already very near compared to Sonnet or Haiku 4.5 , but for a fraction of the price. I am not worried about where is my data ending up through, I am focused on performance and usage limit. I mostly use it for coding and research.

However, I am currently deciding on which to use, and would love any recommendations from anyone that are using any or many of these AI,

- GLM Coding Plan (Z AI): $18/month Lite Plan - BytePlus: $10 ModelArk Coding Plan - Kimi AI: $19/month Moderato Coding Plan - MiniMax: $20 Plus Standard Plan

I would like to ask, is the performance good? Is it worth the value? And how is the usage limit? Also, if anyone have any good recommendation on AI plan that is only in Chinese language, I don’t mind too, as I can understand Chinese.

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JSR_FDED51m ago

I get Kimi through OpenCode Zen (kind of like openrouter for the OpenCode harness), periodically top up $20 and laugh every time I see my balance go down by 3 cents for something I would have happily paid someone $30.

serf1h ago

nous portal or openrouter with a harness that uses intelligent multi provider requests,a local memory system, and pre-sub context compaction on input. if you do similar stuff often your token usage will drop after awhile of using a memory subsystem like hindsight or honcho quite a bit, and even more if you're using your harness to build relevant skills for the repeated tasks.

sidcoolnew28m ago

Antigravity?

fatbrowndog2h ago

not good. I use DeepSeek's plan, Kimi AI, OpenRouter and it seemly consumes more tokens, than Claude's.

I consume Claude ~30% per day in of, 1 week, Max,x20. Equivalent in Kimi Ai, is I consume 60% in one day, in one week.

DeepSeek/Latest, 95% discount, with cache, I rack up ~$60/day before I stopped.

I don't know how Claude compute their daily limits, it seems much cheaper.

JsttanOP1h ago

Which DeepSeek plan did you use? I been trying to find a DeepSeek for a while but with no success. I tried to use Claude $20 plan before, token burn like it is air, would be quite hard to believe anything else would burn so fast?

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