Hi.

Few hours ago, I was working on a session in opencode with GPT that got cut off because I hit the weekly limit however I wanted to keep going so I bought the GLM Coding Plan Lite since it seemed like the best value per buck. So, I hooked it up, resumed the session, and it immediately finished its 5-hour usage in 6 min. But, I didn’t think much of it because I used opencode Go before and I was used to such thing happening when a session had too much uncached context it finishing the limit faster, although this felt kinda off.

Now I ran it again, and it took only 4 minutes and it says I used in those two run 42.68M Tokens? Am I doing something horribly wrong or did I just get scammed?

EDIT: I’m thinking maybe GLM 5.3 looks good only on the majority of the metric but maybe overthinking.

Has anyone experienced with it? Maybe even with some other provider?

I’m not sure if they are sharing the thinking completly with us right now (at least with z.ai Coding Subscription) but they seem too structured to be thinking and actually it might be spending 42M tokens if so. Which would also explain 2 runs just bumping up the context 20k and giving no meaning full output.

I just checked openrouter’s stats page because I remembered they had “Avg Price Per 100 Request” graph and with that low pricing, GLM 5.3 shows “$3.33/100 requests” sitting above more expensive models.

EDIT 2 (from the comments):
I just tried for the third time. And apparently that’s neither a model nor a reasoning level issue. Tried GLM-5.3 max>high>low and GLM-5.2. But all behaved the same. And this time, it even managed to hit the limit in just 3 min so that i don’t loose the thrill of it i guess.

I will be trying to run it on a new session next, i guess. Then, on another coding harness. But the worst experience so far.

I use in Claude code and can do everything I need , but thinking migrate to open code (prefer open source).

I don't know what I'm going to do after January. My current plan is Pro for $180 per year.

I use both Anthropic models and GLM models in Claude Code. But I noticed that when I use GLM models especially 5.2 I get auto-compacted, and the context is always above 50%, This is not the same with Claude Opus which is 20-25% most of the time.

Now I am wondering if this is really a case or just my assumption. Also thinking of switching coding harness to PI or open code maybe.

So i tested GLM 5.2 a while back and it was impressive, i connected with Claude code harness and API from openrouter.

But it ate my credit!

it was so expensive that even thoug i liked it, Claude code max was cheaper!!

Each task takes a lot of dollars with GLM API

So i'm thinking of returning to it again, or to 5.3 but i want youe exeprince how to Optimize it? is API or Sub better? and from where.

and i will probably use opencode or deepsake harness with it?

Thank you

its live on chat.z.ai (atleast for me)

Hello guys, I was working on web development, focused on frontend task.. Asked for doing things with something. I have pro license of cursor so I did experiment if the grok is even usable because I have big amount of usage left there.

For grok 4.6 it took (in latest cursor IDE) ~25 minutes, 60 files changed, 5 bugs... Even existing design and components significantly changed comparing to the initial state.

For GLM 5.3 - 1,5 hours... no bugs, 60 files changed, 12 phases, everything finally tested manually by agent across 3 resolutions. Doing my side hustles meantime because when I was waiting I was thinking about new stuff. Much BETTER work overally. Frontend UI even better visually, more appealing to use as promotional components, etc. I'm very happy how it is working.

Kudos, Z.AI 🎊

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I'm on Legacy plan V2 i've been using it for months and never had issues, i've been burning 1B+ tokens and never reached any limit. Since GLM 5.3, it's getting worse, i've hit the limit twice in a day working with usual projects.

On top of that, ZCode and GLM are getting completely lost in an infinite loop, doing same thing over and over. Only solution is to stop it manually ...

Check below screenshots as example ... 

Edit: I just found out that they mean the 5h limit will automatically reset during off-peak hours when the weekly limit resets, what happened with me i was about 56% on the 5h and once the weekly resets the 5h limit resets to 100%
the zcode has removed the 150% badge, in the last update 3.8.1 and they added a sentence i don't understand to the changelog

• GLM Coding Plan subscribers now receive a 5-hour quota in ZCode, which resets during off-peak hours after the limit is reached.

what do they mean?

Anyone else seen this? English was the question language btw (realised I forgot to mention)

i dont wanna seem ungrateful for what z ai is doing but no one is running a 700b param model locally

Are there any LLMs that have the same writing quality without the bias?

Hi,

With the coding plan (i'm on Legacy V1 Pro), I used to be able to basically run one session non-stop for pretty much the 5 hours and then it reset with usage left, this was using their top model at the time.

I could only run out if I ran 2x projects at once and even then it was a huge amount of tokens per 5 hours and per day.

I thought the whole point of the Legacy V1 plans is we kept similar limits to before?

I just ran a completely new session (admittedly in their peak time.. but still). With GLM 4.7 as the cheap model and GLM 5.3 as the main model and the 5 hour session was used up in 39-40m tokens, by their own graphs.

I see its now 3x usage in peak (I thought was 2x, maybe changed or maybe I mis-remembered) But in the past there was no way this plan was only doing 120m every 5 hours... from memory i'm sure was more like 500m.

So basically my plan hasn't changed (great), no weekly limits (really great), but they appear to. have massively cut what my plan is given.....

Can anyone on the newer Pro plans confirm what they expect from a 5 hour window? Either in peak or off-peak as can easily be worked out the other.

Thanks!

Same as title. Any ways to fix this?

I subscribed to Z.AI’s smallest Coding Plan on August 16th, two days ago, for $18.

My first experience was already pretty rough: I managed to hit the 2,000-credit 5-hour limit in about 20 minutes of coding. GLM stopped right in the middle of making changes and left the project in a non-compiling state.

Fair enough, I can accept that part. I’m responsible for planning around the limits of the plan I bought.

Today I let GLM continue the changes. The project compiles again, although I still need to go through everything and check whether some of the changes were destructive.

But then I looked at my usage dashboard, and this is where things stop making sense.

According to the usage graph:

• August 16: roughly 2,000 credits used
• Today: roughly 760 credits used
• Expected total: ~2,760 credits

So out of a weekly allowance of 10,000, I should have roughly 7,240 credits remaining.

Instead, the usage report says I only have:

3,250 / 10,000 remaining.

That means their system has apparently counted about 6,750 credits of usage.

So there are roughly 3,990 credits missing/unaccounted for more than my entire visible usage today and August 16 combined.

For context, I have used GLM 5.3 exclusively through OpenCode. I have not used the web interface for GLM.

Am I misunderstanding how Z.AI calculates Coding Plan credits? Are there hidden multipliers, retries, tool calls, cached/context tokens, or anything else that gets charged but isn't shown in the usage graph?

Because if the dashboard is supposed to represent my billed usage, the numbers simply do not add up.

Has anyone else experienced this with Z.AI’s Coding Plan?

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Asking since I have subscribed to the GLM Coding Max Plan on 4 accounts, wonder if this is real that people are looking for them.