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justechyesterday at 11:36 PM7 repliesview on HN

If you're looking for Claude Code alternatives, I would first suggest looking into pi.dev or opencode for your harness. And then for models, you can choose from OpenCode Go (IMO most cost effect at this moment), OpenRouter, or direct from DeepSeek. Better if you go the Kimi route IMO and just buy a subscription from kimi.com


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wolttamtoday at 12:11 AM

I’m going to throw my harness in the ring: https://codeberg.org/mlow/lmcli

mgoetzketoday at 10:51 AM

I liked pi.dev but why is registering endpoints and models not as simple as possible ? Or am i missing something ? I always have to fiddle with the config file.

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Aeroiyesterday at 11:55 PM

agreed. OpenCode is a strong base, and with a couple modifications it can become a very effective harness. my sideproject mouse.dev I’ve been combining parts from OpenCode, Claude Code, and Hermes to build a cloud agent architecture that works well from mobile.

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cpursleytoday at 9:24 AM

How does the kimi subscription compare to Codex and Claude Code in terms of how much mileage you get for the pricing? I mean, I see the prices but not sure how usage that buys.

aaurelionsyesterday at 11:45 PM

Another very cost-effective option is Ollama Cloud. In a month of use, I only hit the 5-hour limit once, when I ran 8 agents simultaneously for 2 hours.

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bakugotoday at 12:26 AM

> I would first suggest looking into pi.dev

Looked into this one. Thought it was suspicious that it only had 7 open issues on github. Turns out they have a bot that auto-closes every single issue just because.

I honestly have no words.

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DeathArrowtoday at 6:17 AM

>If you're looking for Claude Code alternatives, I would first suggest looking into pi.dev or opencode for your harness.

While those are nice, Claude Code has the largest amount of plugins and skills I want to use.

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