alt Hacker NewsWhat's the use case for Zai/GLM? I'm currently on Claude Pro, and the Zai looks about 50% more expensive after the first 3 months and according to their chart GLM 4.7 is not quite as capable as Opus 4.5?
I'm looking to save on costs because I use it so infrequently, but PAYG seems like it'd cost me more in a single session per month than the monthly cost plan.
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Mashimo • yesterday at 4:31 PM
> What's the use case for Zai/GLM?
It's cheap :) It seems they stopped it now, but for the last 2 month you could buy the lite plan for a whole year for under 30 USD, while claude is ~19 USD per month. I bought 3 month for ~9 USD.
I use it for hobby projects. Casual coding with Open Code.
If price is not important Opus / Codex are just plain better.
If you pay for the whole year, GLM4.7 is only $7/mo for the first year. And until a few days ago, they had a fantastic deal that ran for almost 2 months where it was less than $3/mo for the first year. I grabbed it, and have been using it exclusively for personal coding since. It's good enough for me.
The other claimed benefit is a higher quota of tokens.