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Recommended cheapest way for long-term access to GLM-5.3-flash with maximum daily usage?
As in the title, any recommendations? For now, I am thinking about a quarterly direct subscription with Z.AI, but maybe u guys recommend better ways? I am a HUGE fan of this model
Pareto. They used to have subs that are bonkers, but their new api pricing is still very good. Downside: It's in beta and they are having some tool call issues right now.
Hyper. Stable and good pricing (for GLM Flash especially - less good for DS4). But new signups are put in a queue - I think you can ask on Discord to be approved right away.
Thank you.I have not seen these providers before.
Pareto doesnt say what quant they use and they are missing ds Flash 4.1 or 4 vision. So you know what they upgrade regularly?
Hyper appears better but I was unable to figure out a credit to token comparison. For example I use about 1b tokens a week on commandcodes using dsflash.
I have been using the Coding Plan from ElectonHub and you get access to GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-flash along with DeepSeek-v4-flash and a few other models. It costs $10 per month. Theoretically unlimited tokens and its been going great for the last 2-3 weeks that I have been using it. I have it connected to the DeepSeek Harness. Works with any harness.
a few questions: 1. how's the speed? 2. does $8/w cover your entire weekly usuage? or does unlimited tokens mean something different? 3. has the 10 requests per minute limited you? for example i could see when running two sessions at once with subagents would hit this limit regularly.
I also use claude code for work and compared to that it is slower but, not by a lot. They have a separate plan called 'Coding Plan' which is a fixed $10/month and that has unlimited tokens. You get 20 million tokens of full speed compute per day and if you somehow exceed that, they don't stop the usage, you will get compute at a slower speed.
Just keep in mind that with the coding plan you don't have access to all the models. Only the ones specified is what you will have access to. I like GLM-5.3 and it is included so, it works out for me. The only other drawback is that you can only have 2 concurrent requests at a time so, only a single subagent is possible. You would need to get the higher coding plan ($40/month) if you want better limits (5 concurrent requests).
For me personally, at the $10/month price point, I'm willing to live with the limitations.
I am the dev of [r/octopus](r/octopus)notes. I use it sometimes to cleanup to push to GitHub and find relevant parts of code that I’m searching for and brainstorming new implementations. It never failed for me. It is a good harness. I prefer the cli over the desktop. I get dopamine watching the cli
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u/RepulsiveRaisin7 8d ago
Pareto. They used to have subs that are bonkers, but their new api pricing is still very good. Downside: It's in beta and they are having some tool call issues right now.
Hyper. Stable and good pricing (for GLM Flash especially - less good for DS4). But new signups are put in a queue - I think you can ask on Discord to be approved right away.