alt Hacker NewsThis is interesting, I've been using claude for work stuff because they pay the $200 subscripion but at home I've been using pi with glm-5.3-flash and now deepseekv4.1-flash.
When I'm doing work stuff I'm really not liking claude and only using it because anthropic doesn't allow other harnesses. If work would give me a $20 ollama cloud subscription in place of the $200 claude one I would be much more happy at work, that's how much I dislike it.
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> it because anthropic doesn't allow other harnesses.
You're not able to use the API credit and hook it up to another harness?
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/api-credits...
> because anthropic doesn't allow other harnesses
I don't think this is true. They never went through with this change. If you use the SDK it appears ToS compliant. You just can't sell it or distribute it, hence why pi doesn't support it.
> anthropic doesn't allow other harnesses
they do though?
edit: i guess the parent comment meant subscriptions specifically.
So you could make yourself much happier at work by paying the $20 yourself
You can use any harness with claude sub through llm reverse proxy
I use Requesty to get access to models from all providers, including Anthropic. It is pretty cheap and competitive with others for the quality. haiku 5.5 is one of the cheapest available, cheaper than Qwen while being superior in the price range (less than 10 cents per million tokens). I put 10 dollars to use on my hobby projects and I still have more than half after a couple of weeks. Using bigger models is dramatically more expensive, of course.