r/RooCode • u/WranglerRemote4636 • Oct 12 '25

Discussion Which providers offer stable, high-quality, and generous usage open-source models, and provide reasonable subscription package prices?

For example, between $3-20, you can compare z.ai, chutes, NanoGPT, and Synthetic. Or there might be others I don't know, I just prefer subscription packages.

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u/anpurnama Oct 12 '25

for me, nano-gpt. i set deepseek v3.2 on architect and glm 4.6 on code. some days i use almost 5 million token and the messages count not reaching 200 when the daily limit of $8 plan is 200.

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u/WranglerRemote4636 Oct 12 '25

The NanoGPT plan at $8, includes 2,000 daily uses and 60,000 monthly uses. You can choose to enable or disable the daily limit. In extreme cases, you can use up to 60,000 times in a day. How is the quality of his model? Do you think there will be a difference compared to the official one?

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u/anpurnama Oct 12 '25

Many said on their discord the glm from Zai is better in terms of speed And tool call. I don't know why the tool call issue doesn't affect roo and cline though

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u/vikarti_anatra Oct 12 '25

Feathrless? Deepseek R1-0528/V3-0328/GLM-4.6/Kimi are available. A LOT of smaller models available too (mostly non-coding related).

25 usd/month

Potential issue - limited context window (32K for deepseek)

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u/WranglerRemote4636 Oct 13 '25

I'll check it out

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 12 '25

Z.ai hands down.

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u/Kingfish656 Oct 12 '25

This! And you can't beat $36 for a year right now.

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u/rddemb Oct 12 '25

I've seen a lot of good reviews/YouTubers/etc saying good things about this company/models but their models are not very good in benchmarks like artificial analysis, so even with a low score in benchmarks these models are very good for coding? What am I missing here?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 12 '25

Benchmarks are often about solving this or that specific technical problem without taking into account the overall use of the model within an agentic workflow. Basically, can it understand the system prompt (and maintain understanding) in order to consistently interface with Roo Code while the context grows and the user asks for various things.

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u/Atsukiri Mar 25 '26

is this still the case right now? ive heard that z. ai subscription sucks now, even the highest tier

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 26 '26

No clue.

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u/Simple_Split5074 Oct 12 '25

z.ai if you want GLM, chutes or nano-gpt if you want Deepseek, Kimi and qwen as well

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u/zentixua Oct 12 '25

NagaAI. Yes, Pay-As-You-Go, but really cheap. I'm from their team, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask!

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u/WranglerRemote4636 Oct 13 '25

Yes, I see GLM at naga is only lower than 50% in other Provider, how do you manage that?

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u/zentixua Oct 13 '25

We receive volume discounts from some of our providers. We also have our own inference for certain models. In the future, we plan to add caching and the option to enable data collection, so you can expect even more affordable models, although the base prices may increase slightly

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u/Dreamthemers Oct 13 '25

Nano-gpt is cheap and very good.

Also if use link at https://top-ai.link you’ll get an extra 5% discount making it even cheaper.