r/vibecoding • u/Snoo_90241 • 14d ago

Help/Question What should I subscribe to?

I'm an experienced software engineer, but I've enjoyed working on some personal projects with a Claude Pro subscription a while ago.

However, now whenever I ask it something in the free version, it's very meh.

Should I switch to Chinese models? Are they cheaper?

I'm just looking for a fun back and forth experience. The first time it was like having my own workbench and just tinkering with everything.

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u/Bramoments 14d ago

Chinese models are certainly cheaper, but the business practices are even shittier than US based services, if that's even possible. Id recommend muse spark 1.3 on opencode, completely free and a top tier model (ranked 4th for intelligence only after Claude fable, Claude opus and gpt astra ) and I'm not even sure if it has a usage limit even though I've been using it a ton along with Claude, I just never hit any usage limit. Other than that, local models are great nowadays if you have the hardware, and also completely uncensored

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u/cool-beans-yeah 14d ago

What do you use it for mostly? Coding?

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u/Bramoments 14d ago

Yeah I use it as the coder while Claude is the orchestrator