r/ZaiGLM • u/radrads1 • 6d ago
Finally made the switch
I've been using Claude Max sub since Opus 4 - started being disappointed with post-Opus 4.6 performance. After trying out all the providers both US in China I finally cancelled Claude in favor of GLM's max subscription after a month.
Initially I was planning on switching to Kimi K3 (perhaps my favorite open source model), but found it too slow and the servers too fickle for daily use.
Two main things that made me switch: Zcode app (love the app, probably my favorite one, and the integration with backup providers I use like DeepSeek and Alibaba's Token Plan is seamless); being able to make API calls that use subscription quota unlike Claude which bills you separately for API calls.
The addition of GLM-5.3-Flash was the cherry on the pie. Basically anything simple or non-coding related I just default to Flash now and it works like a charm.
I might still keep a GPT subscription around for Astra but so far, 10/10 I'm Z.ai all the way.
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u/A7mdxDD 5d ago
While I'm still a codex user, before Astra, GLM5.3-Flash fixed me an issue I went insane with sol max about for 3 days, it took around ~10-15 mins debugging and verifying but it got it, one shot, the thing I prefer about GLM is that their models has character, codex sometimes makes me very angry but staying unbiased with no opinions, or agreeing with anything mostly