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 ?
I'm using it for my own stuff and I'm definitely not dropping however much it costs for the Claude Max plans.
That's why I usually use Claude for planning, feed the issues to beads or a markdown file and then have Codex or Crush+GLM implement them.
For exploratory stuff I'm "pair-programming" with Claude.
At work we have all the toys, but I'm not putting my own code through them =)
It's a perfectly serviceable fallback when Claude Code kicks me off in the middle of an edit on the Pro plan (which happens constantly to me now) and I just want to finish tweaking some CSS styles or whatever to wrap up. If you have a legitimate concern about losing customers than yes, you're probably in the wrong target market for a $3/mo plan...
> I tried several times
Did you try the new GLM 4.7 or the older models?