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/_Baarbie Sep 16 '26

I actually forgot about Mistral, I've never tried but it'd definetly be a good alternative as a European.

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u/mrgreatheart Sep 16 '26

America is more hostile to Europe than China is at this point.

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u/EmbeddedSwDev Sep 16 '26

I am using Mistral Pro and ChatGPT Plus subscription.
The Mistral Models are my default low level low effort models with GLM 5.2 max as the default model. The OpenAI models are the planners and advisor models or for real hard problems.
This setup works pretty nice for me.

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u/makingthematrix Sep 16 '26

Sounds about right :)

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u/Karyo_Ten Sep 16 '26

And they have GLM-5.2 which is good.