alt Hacker News"Cheaper" compared to API prices, right? I've run the numbers and the frontier subscriptions are still the best option. 100% usage every week is a truly absurd amount of value. Unfortunately the subscriptions can't be used outside the official harnesses.
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zahlman • last Monday at 6:59 AM
Trying to force myself to find ways to extract full value out of such a subscription sounds very unpleasant.
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slopinthebag • last Monday at 2:17 AM
Both API and subscription prices are cheaper with all other models and providers compared to Anthropic.
GPT is also better than Claude from my personal experience. GLM 5.2 is equal and Kimi K3 is better.
But I mostly use Deepseek and pay api prices.
A month or so ago I asked Claude about using open-weight models through another provider (after describing my usage patterns), and, amusingly, it told me that I could probably save money ditching my Claude Max 5x sub and switching to something like Fireworks, using GLM 5.2, even if I'd be paying API rates.
I still haven't gotten around to trying it, though, so I don't know what the reality is. And new open-weight models have been released since then that I'd want to evaluate...