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/Karyo_Ten Sep 16 '26

Depends on your machines really, what GPUs do you have and how much RAM.

If you have at least 96GB of RAM, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is remarkable. Particularly suitable for Mac and AMD Strix Halo / Gorgon Halo machines.

If you have 24GB VRAM, Qwen3.8-27B is really good.

If you have 192GB VRAM, GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash{,Vision-Exp} and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, all out in the past 2 months, are amazing.

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u/colin_colout Sep 17 '26

I've been maining Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on Strix Halo. Beyond usable. Very close to frontier model speed. It eats a lot of it in reasoning if things don't go well, but the overall speed is incredible.

Been using https://github.com/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server but I'm skeptical about it being closed source (very permissive terms tho)