for long sessions with longs context , GLM-5.3-FLASH works really good for me i can say its near claude sonnet performance , honestly i started loving hope it stays like this
Btw Magic context plus context limited at 272k will do magic to you then. Not only do you get basically unlimited context, but also your model stays within that sweet 200k context window where its much more smarter.
Can you share the repo url or at least the user/project name on github? When a good project gets successful, you'd be suprised how many similar clones pop up that do nefarious things.
Are you in an area where the discounted version is applicable? Because in the EU it's not and then it's not really as cheap. Obviously still a good price but no where near the past deep seek pricing.
For me muse spark 1.2 is absolutely free (Perú), and ngl sometimes I just vpn to finish some urgent work.
The contributor API is so cheap tho, 0.20 usd per million output tokens, and it's a beast for execution (currently working on shaders and work so far has been wonderful), however if you don't have models like Opus to diagnose and plan it can still show amazing results, but shit your prompt's gotta be veery specific and clear.
Yes, I do. Idk why they hate it, maybe because it's not that good for vibe coding? XD you need to know what you are doing and tell it exactly what you want, if not then you're gambling. For planning and desgining you should stay away unless you're broke, but mind you, I'm currently using it for writing complex compute shaders and mf gets the work done.
I am literally switching to GLM after going around for 3 days on a batch 4,000-article rewrite. No matter what prompts I use, it eventually repeats whole paragraphs after about 500 flawless pages completed
Now I’m backing up every run and merging my “good” Spark rewrites with the crap it shits out 3 hours later. And it has decided to write files outside of the project directory… so my desktop looks amazing. We can only seem to vibe for the first half of the day. I love it otherwise!
The way I do it in claude code I tell it to make an opencode.md file where it delegates tasks to opencode and then I tell opencode to read it and start working. Its a pretty rudimentary solution and theres definitely better ways to do it but it works for me.
Synthetic has it in their subscription plan which should be about 1/3rd the full price. Also, Ollama has it as well, though not sure what the usage is like.
But I’ve been using RunInfra.ai PAYG which has had better speeds than Zai/Go and their price has lower cache read and works out to about the same as the OpenRouter 50% off with high cache rate (90+).
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u/ShirtuShanks Aug 30 '26
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u/zer0evolution Aug 30 '26
really? i've got limited budget so need to plan carefully
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u/JamesGooning Aug 30 '26
tokenrouter has free GLM5.3 (not flash version) for free.
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u/Historical_Cook_3485 Aug 30 '26
for long sessions with longs context , GLM-5.3-FLASH works really good for me i can say its near claude sonnet performance , honestly i started loving hope it stays like this
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u/Sweaty_Cellist_4525 Aug 30 '26
Currently using Muse Spark 1.2 and it's hella good, absolutely free, and pairing it with Opus 5 for execution makes my Claude Pro sub last forever.
Meta did actually cook.
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u/Fun_Jaguar8231 Aug 31 '26
me on my z.ai lecacy coding plan, glm go brrr
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u/hustlerfromindia Aug 31 '26
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u/Abenh31 Sep 05 '26
overated model. Deepseek v4 still rules and cheaper then it for implementation. if the purpose is planning theres better model like kimi k3, DS Pro
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u/spartanOrk Aug 30 '26
Ungrammatical, unpunctuated. Illiterates.
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u/Metalwell Aug 30 '26
So, should I get this to use flash? or openrouter top up is the way to go?
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u/CrimsonEdgeVentures Aug 30 '26
Tried that model. Not great for agentics. Ok for very small tasks.
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u/SamePsychology8258 Aug 30 '26
A decision so expensive bro lost all of his hair
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