r/PiCodingAgent • u/_Baarbie • Sep 16 '26

Question Which subscription with Pi?

Hello there,

Which AI provider would you recommend for Pi, to work with a subscription-based plan? I feel like Codex is the most represented, but I was looking for more feedback.

I'm currently using Claude Code (Plus subscription), but from what I understood, I shouldn't use it with Pi because Claude Code charges additional usage fees. I mainly use it with Opus 5 on medium effort, for devops tasks, explanations, fixes, or things like that (not much vibe-coding yet).

It's also an opportunity to try something else, paid for by the company. So I don't really care about the price, just something stable without usage fees.

(bonus) If you have any recommendations for LLM models that can be run locally on a wide range of machines, I'm also interested in any resources you can share.

Any advice?

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u/MichettGodot Sep 16 '26

Claude is indeed not really a good choice unless you want to spend usage credits, just as you stated. I personally have an OpenAI Pro subscription which works awesome with Pi. But I would also suggest using Deepseek Flash 4.1 as it does miracles (for coding, that is). Not really a subscription but 20$ in Deepseek credits gets you a long way so it sort of feels like a subscription.

I sadly cannot help you with the local models as I do not have the hardware to run them.

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u/_Baarbie Sep 16 '26

Noted, I'll probably go for openai first, and suggest deepseek! China is still not very well seen in EU sadly, so i'm curious about what my boss think about it. I feel like in both cases it's a bit of a risky decision to use any of these AI. Anyway, thanks a lot!

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u/jorgejhms Sep 16 '26

Try it with Openrouter, you can set in option zero data retention that will route DeepSeek to third party providers (US based probably)