alt Hacker NewsWhat Chinese models/providers are you using for this? I'm hitting Claude's weekly limits much sooner than I used to with roughly the same workload, so I'm interested in trying alternatives, especially ones with strong coding/agentic performance.
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Get yourself an OpenCode Go subscription and give DeepSeek Flash 4.1 a shot.
A common tactic is to used a big brain model like Opus for planning and reviewing, and a cheaper model for execution.
Don't use opus 5.5 at high. Medium is about as good as 5.0 was at high.
z.ai with zcode. it works around the clock for me off of my redmine queue
I have tried GLM on a subscription, and also DeepSeek and MiMo using API directly. MiMo in particular is extremely cheap.
For regular software development they have been pretty great.
> hitting Claude's weekly limits much sooner than I used to with roughly the same workload,
Anthropic had a +50% weekly tokens promotion since April (!) which just ran out last weekend after getting multiple extensions.
I've been feeling that too,and I suspect that's the true reason why they released opus 5.5 at a discount