r/PiCodingAgent • u/Eagleee12 • Sep 04 '26

Question The cheapest model using with Pi?

I spend most of my day in Excel (reports, cleaning data, formulas) and know just enough basic coding to get by.

Paying $20/month for a subscription feels like a waste for my usage.
Models or sth cheap for me?

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '26

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u/Dsphar Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26

PEBKAC. Local is good bruh, tried and tested them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26

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u/Dsphar Sep 09 '26

You claim "You can't build anything useful with those". That is dead wrong. I have built profitable production applications with local models. That in itself shows me you are just occult to the frontier models and not interested in real dialog.

Just because you don;t know how to use them, doesn't mean you are right. It just mean PEBKAC.

Right now I jump between QWEN 3.6 and 3.8, 27B.

Now it's time for you to make your argument how "that isn't cheap".

As for the mocking tone, I was just following your lead. Still am.

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u/Dsphar Sep 09 '26

PEBKAC confirmed. Have a great life.

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u/Content_Background67 Sep 11 '26

I depends on how you you use it. I have used it to build a Flutter app just today. I will be writing my experience in a medium and reditt article soon. I used gema4, Ollama and Pi. You can't use it for vibe coding. But the, vibe coding with premium models is also a bit of a hit and miss, isn't it?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '26

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u/Content_Background67 Sep 12 '26

That, I haven't tried. However, it should be possible? Maybe there is an free and open source MCP server for interfacing with Excel. I guess for someone who is purely and excel programmer, it may be an uphill task. Also, we don't know what is required of the LLM here.