alt Hacker News> I've been using Pi with GLM5.2 the past few days, and though it's expensive
are you using the API for glm 5.2 or how exactly is it more expensive? How is GLM5.2 more expensive than using Claude code, that doesn't line up to my experience but to be fair I am on an older yearly subscription which generously only has 5 hour limits.
To be fair though one minor criticism of GLM 5.2 that I have is that it does seem to overthink quite a lot sometimes but the results end up being (good?),
I personally have used Glm 5.2 with (Opencode + obra/superpowers) / Oh-my-pi / Maki.sh
I like the 1st one when I am doing a longer project, the 2nd or 3rd one when I am doing a project which doesn't want me to ask too many questions and simply spin me up something. I sometimes use free online interfaces of claude and gemini and others like AIstudio for that as well which surprisingly can lead you to go far as well.
Overall, I am decently happy with the state of Open-source models actually and the eco-system around it is probably gonna have even more innovation surrounding it.
I'm using OpenRouter for GLM5.2, but if there's a cheaper option out there I'd love to know about it!
In the few days I've been using it, my expenses have been higher than prorating my Claude subscription to 20 working days per month.
My experience with GLM5.2 is that it doesn't overthink nearly as much as Claude Code, has better and far more concise responses (I'm so siiiiick of 10 paragraph Claude babble trying to fill out some sort of answer length target by going on tangents I'm uninterested in... I'm sure that performs better on whatever eval they're doing, but apparently their evals don't include SNR?)