alt Hacker News>On output tokens, GLM-5.2 is less than a fifth the price of Opus.
Opus is most expensive model in pay as you go model, but IMO fair comparison should include subscription price as well. For example when one has $100 Claude Max and use it up through the month, it might not be more expensive than GLM, or at least not 5x.
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> For example when one has $100 Claude Max and use it up through the month, it might not be more expensive than GLM, or at least not 5x.
I’m currently trying to figure out whether a downgrade from Max 5x to Pro in combination with one of those would save me money and if so, how much.
Edit: seems like Anthropic Pro + GLM Pro (Yearly) would let me almost halve my costs of Anthropic Max 5x. Only concerns are about GLM 5.2 not having vision support and also being kinda slower and also not being as good as Opus.
Yes this is true. This test was run on a $20 pro Claude subscription. I would definitely love to try use both models on the highest plans for a whole month and compare the two, great format for a future head-to-head comparison.
Is it fair when the one is heavily subsidized and the other one is not?
I think it's most fair to compare the plain token pricing that is used by everyone.
There is, for example, OpenCode Go subscription, which for $10 a month gives you a decently generous quota of GLM-5.2, among other models.
And z.ai themselves also have subscriptions.