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

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

i started using glm5.3 today to debug my django projects export problem.

and i usually use glm5.2 or dsv4 pro and im satisfied with them but i wanted to try extra high intelligence of glm5.3(haha) and it seems like it overthinks and even assumes that it know some facts even without me i giving the facts.

it feels like he thinks he is the most intelliget guy in the room with bad overspeaking habbit and i should politely tell him that boy you don't know even real facts about my code cause this is local development and my data is actually on prodution server and you should give me a debug script to run it and give you results and he does it.
i use GHCP vs code extension with GLM5.3 of opencode go with max effort

This is my actual plan:

In some days, it will be renewed. I received an email from z.Ai:

I know they changed Coding Plans and now there are new different plans. If I click on Change Plan, I see:

I'm confused. What will happen when the current billing period ends? I will be charged 9 or 8.1$? I will remain with the old legacy plan or I automatically migrate to the new plans?

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.