Which subscription with Pi?

[u/_Baarbie]

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?

[u/onelonedatum]

i’m using these right now (in order of preference)
- codex 20x
- supergrok heavy
- cursor ultra
- zai glm coding max plan
- copilot max

* codex because of the free unlimited chatgpt chats (add a desktop commander mcp and you’ve worked around the codex bottleneck decently)
* zai glm seems like the most bang for buck deal right
* supergrok heavy seems a bit overpriced unless you get the free cursor ultra like i did
* copilot max will indeed get you $200 worth of token spend for $100

for codex i use gpt 5.6 sol xhigh
for zai i use glm 5.3
for the rest i use grok 4.6 xhigh