z.ai models are crazy cheap. The one year lite plan is like 30€ (on sale though).
Complete no-brainer to get it as a backup with Crush. I've been using it for read-only analysis and implementing already planned tasks with pretty good results. It has a slight habit of expanding scope without being asked. Sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes it does useless work or messes things up a bit.
I shifted from Crush to Opencode this week because Crush doesn't seem to be evolving in its utility; having a plan mode, subagents etc seems to not be a thing they're working on at the mo.
I'd love to hear your insight though, because maybe I just configured things wrong haha
this doesn’t mean much if you hit daily limits quickly anyway. So the API pricing matters more
I tried several times . It is no match in my personal experience with Claude models . There’s almost no place for second spot from my point of view . You are doing things for work each bug is hours of work, potentially lost customer etc . Why would you trust your money … just to back up ?