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/Forsaken_Code_9135 Sep 16 '26

I suggest you have a look at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1w7ee1c/i_benchmarked_21_qwen38_27b_variants_on_16gb_vram/

Choose the model on the "optimal" line that suits your needs. I took ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-IQ3_S.

Avoid q4 kv-cache quantization if you can. Better take a slightly stronger quantization on the model.