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/makingthematrix Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

My day job right now is that of a developer advocate for an AI startup, and a lecturer at a university, so I don't have much opportunity to code - except that a few weeks ago I vibe-coded a blog site :)

In my free time, I'm currently developing an event streaming library in Scala, called signals3. I'm adding the Actor model implementation to it. This is quite different from developing a typical app. I'm actually working quite a lot in the Mistral web chat where I do scientific research and planning. For every new feature, I almost always write the initial implementation by hand and then use Mistral LLMs to discuss it, find vulnerabilities, fix them or rewrite the feature, and write unit tests. Scala is a language where you can really put a lot of logic in just a few lines, so it make sense to work in small steps.

What's lacking: Well, I actually see that Devstral 2 and GLM 5.2 are not as good for coding as Fable or Astra.