alt Hacker NewsTo answer the question in your first sentence - because it's VERY computationally (ha) expensive as a human being to keep up with all the options. It's also very hard to figure out how to run a model like this. There's no installer. If you really really care, which 99% of people do not, you have to google a guide, and then find out it's out of date...
I've tried a number of these, and the learning curve is very steep compared to "install Claude Code and pay $100/mo". There is no way saving me $50/month matters compared to figuring that out.
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It's also very hard to figure out how to run a model like this. There's no installer.
Yes, there is. It's called Claude Code. Point it at the HuggingFace URL and say "Download these weights and build whatever is needed to run them, then test the model."
install opencode, then either pay $10 for their plan, or add an openrouter api key.
> There's no installer.
There's ZCode (https://zcode.z.ai). Which is like the Codex App.
That's as "easy" as it is for non-devs that you're complaining about.
I agree with this.
I'd pay for an out of the box solution. i.e. an Installer with updates
But it just works with Claude Code? They have a guide on their website.
https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude
Here's my setup. I add this to my .bashrc
export ZAI_API_KEY="your_key_here"
alias claudez='ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="$ZAI_API_KEY" ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic" ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL="glm-5.2[1m]" ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL="glm-4.7" ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL="glm-4.7" claude'
Then I just run claudez
pro tip the same thing works with deepseek https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/anthropic_api
Even more pro tip: Claude Code can set this up for you haha