DeepSeek v4 pro is still 10x cheaper than GLM-5.2 and the quality is still enough for 95% of coding tasks.
People always say stuff like this, but it is misleading. The reason it's misleading is because that remaining 5% makes a huge difference, and is where most of the value of using AI agents lies.
I'm not interested in using AI to write code that would have taken me 5-10 minutes to write myself. I use AI to debug complex bugs and develop large features that span multiple domains - stuff that normally takes hours, if not days/weeks. A model that is "enough for 95%" does not cut it for that, because the failures compound during long-horizon tasks and the thing becomes a mess.
....so use DeepSeek v4 Pro for 95% of your coding tasks, and GLM 5.2 for the other 5%? You don't need to stick to one model.