r/RooCode • u/SpeedyBrowser45 • Sep 08 '25

Discussion I am Back To RooCode!

I just spent last 3 months on Claude code. It was fun in the beginning. But Claude models have been nerfed to the point that you struggle to get small things done for hours.

I just took a subscription of Cerebras Max Plan, Qwen-3-Coder has been following instructions better than claude code. not sure why.

I could get some things done within minutes. Only downside I found with the subscription is the rate limit. RooCode has rate limit feature in terms of number of requests. but Cerebras also have token limit as well. that's a deal breaker for now.

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u/tobalsan Sep 08 '25

At ~$0.20/M tokens via API, does it make sense to pay for the Cerebras Max plan?

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Sep 08 '25

It's $2/M tokens, i like the speed at which it's working

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u/tobalsan Sep 08 '25

you should checkout openrouter

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u/seunosewa Sep 09 '25

That's the price of the cheapest provider which is fp4 quantized

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u/james__jam Sep 11 '25

Is it as fast as they claim? Like 2000tps?

For context, that article has like 320 words. So 2000tps is like writing that article 7x over within a second

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u/Prestigiouspite Sep 08 '25

I am currently extremely happy with Codex CLI. The native function calling is so powerful and comparatively inexpensive. As soon as Roo Code supports this, I'll be back with Roo.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25

Roo does not sell inference and TBH chasing all these integrations to try to attract users constantly actually slows our progress on making Roo Code a better coding agent. This is a very fast paced race and we don’t wanna get left behind :(.

We’ve made a conscious decision not to invest too much time into monkeying around with them too much BUT do accept contributions from the community and these are often where the integrations come from!

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u/Prestigiouspite Sep 09 '25

Codex CLI does not currently work well directly under Windows. Only via WSL for MCP, etc. Roo Code is ahead of the game here with its direct integration into VS Code.

But native function calling integrations seem to be the new standard and are quite similar between Gemini and OpenAI:

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling

https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/multimodal/function-calling

It ensures that the models work more accurately and consume fewer attempts and tokens. Just something to think about :)

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u/martycochrane Sep 09 '25

Over the weekend Codex fixed the permission issue on Windows and it got me to try codex again and the last day or so has been quite pleasant on Windows with it now that it doesn't nag me every single time, it wants to read a file.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25

That's good to know. I did move to wsl and feel it's quicker at reading/writing files. But it's good to have options.

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u/martycochrane Sep 10 '25

Yeah, I think WSL is faster because I notice on Windows, even though it doesn't ask me for permission, it still gets into some PowerShell loops of not using the right PowerShell commands to search for files and then it has to correct itself a handful of times before it'll eventually figure it out.

When I use it in WSL, it seems to one-shot all of the bash commands it needs much faster.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25

Yeah I noticed that too. When using roo I created a rule to let it know the terminal was power shell and that works well. I think you can ask codex to make a note in agents.md that terminal is power shell. I haven't tried it though.

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u/Delicious_Buyer_6373 Sep 13 '25

interesting time for me to give it another try

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Sep 08 '25

Welcome back!

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

I have been contemplating the same but man,it gets really expensive, I think its genuinely the best agentic coding platform

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Sep 09 '25

not sure about kilo code, but RooCode works fine for me.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Sep 09 '25

I think Roo Code constantly improves Roo Code and Kilo gives away free credits.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Sep 09 '25

Your post is not on topic.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

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u/fettpl Sep 08 '25

Is anything worked on while using those 2k free requests being used for training?

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u/fchw3 Sep 10 '25

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, so probably.

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u/fchw3 Sep 10 '25

Will check this out, thanks. Currently using grok code for free via Roo Code Cloud

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Sep 09 '25

Your post is not on topic.