alt Hacker NewsSure, but whatever you do, don't buy their (Z.ai) lite plan.
I feel like i threw 15 dollars in the sea. I'm getting rate limited after 3-4 prompts. You get way less value than just paying 25 dollars for Claude or OpenAI models.
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How are you using it? I have the lite plan and I've only ever maxed my weekly usage a few hours before reset. I will concede that I'm not a super heavy LLM user but it's been really good for me.
My workflow is usually:
- read file. I want to achieve X, how do? Do not implement anything.
- I would do a, b and c
- sketch a brief implementation of your suggestion
- <code> (not writing files yet)
- instead of your approach x, wouldn't it make sense to instead do z? What would that look like?
- <code>
- nice, implement this
- starts writing files, run tests, etc.
Did you consider their peak hours and model usage multiplier? Read the green box https://docs.z.ai/devpack/overview#usage-instruction
I had the Lite plan, I NEVER maxed out the quota because I considered these things. If I, for example, switched over to GLM-5-Turbo, then I could've easily burned through quota.