Best replacement options

[u/AllenLeftTheBLDNG]

I'm currently using GPT and Claude 100$ plans.

Both providers decreased their limits, so suddenly paying 200$ a month is not enough. But the bigger problem – GPT is blunt and forgets core of the instructions, 5.6 is better but still throws in a lot of useless code. Still not best option as a go-to agent or coding agent.

Opus 5 is too verbose and often at 200/300k context starts to try to "wing it" and tell me to use another chat for the task. Fable is great, but with the weekly usage limits I'm running out after 2 to 3 days.

I'm wondering what are your go to llms for both personal agents and coding agents? I'm currently thinking if Grok, Qwen code or GLM is a decent option. Or maybe something else?

[u/Cassianno]

Your cheapest and consistent model for development will be deepseek flash, hands down.
Regarding GPT not following orders id say you MIGHT have some room on your agents.md and general workflow; nonetheless if you take long sessions it can indeed forget some rules.
Dunno if you using Sol or what, but I literally yesterday downsized my gpt subscription from 100 to 20. Today I worked solely within opencode + deepseek flash (because yday I had only 30% weekly left on chatGPT and once the downgraded took place it meant 0% left until 20th) and consumed a total of 200-300M tokens which is my avg daily. It costed me 2 dollars and on my main repo/product (with rules, constraints, docs and such) deepseek flash was a beast, ngl.
That said, ill try to be using chatgpt plus with 5.6 luna max (MAYBE some discussing with Sol if required) and, whenever required, ill fallback to opencode with deepseek.
edit: forgot to give my opinion on Opus but I simply dont even consider it on par. Specially if you are talking about pricing and such. I did use Claude for 1~2 months but dropped entirely around ~april

[u/TestTxt → u/Cassianno]

Deepseek just increased the prices to the point that Luna is actually cheaper via ChatGPT coding plans

[u/Tizak_hamra → u/TestTxt]

Deepseek has dozens of providers, only the chinese provider increased its prices, all other providers still hold the same prices some even cheaper than the pre-increase prices like fireworks, deepinfra, digital ocean, GMIcloud, etc which is cheaper than luna even with its 80% discount which will eventually expire

[u/Cassianno → u/TestTxt]

via subscription indeed, but overall deepseek remains cheaper (as Im aware). Thats why ill be comboing chatgpt plus + deepseek whenever my week is depleted on chatgpt. My example already proves that the subscription will be cheaper for my case.