[jhancock]

I tried synthetic.new prior to GLM-4.6...Starting in August...So I already had a subscription.

When z.ia launched GLM-4.6, I subscribed to their Coding Pro plan. Although I haven't been coding as heavy this month as the prior two months, I used to hit Claude limits almost daily, often twice a day. That was with both the $20 and $100 plans. I have yet to hit a limit with z.ai and the server response is at least as good as Claude.

I mention synthetic.new as it's good to have options and I do appreciate them sponsoring the dev of Octofriend. z.ai is a China company and I think hosts in Singapore. That could be a blocker for some.

[mchiang]

Do you find yourself sticking with GLM 4.6 over Claude for some tasks? Or do you find yourself still wanting to reach for Claude?

[jhancock]

I have been subscribing to both Claude and ChatGPT for over two years. Spent several months on Claude's $100 plan and couple months on ChatGPT's $200 plan but otherwise using their $20/month plans.

I cancelled Claude two weeks ago. Pure GLM-4.6 now and a tad of codex with my ChatGPT Pro subscription. I sometimes use ChatGPT for extended research stuff and non-tech.

[theshrike79]

I was a hardcore Claude fan too, but Sonnet 4.5 + the new weekly limits are really annoying.

I could deal with the limits, but holy shit is Sonnet 4.5 chatty. It produces as much useless crap as Opus 4.1 did. Might feel fun for Vibe Coders when the model pumps out tons of crap, but I want it to do what I asked, not try to get extra credit with "advanced" solutions and 500+ row "reports" after it's done. FFS.

Been testing crush + z.ai GLM 4.6 through Openrouter (had some credits in there it seems =) for this evening and I'm kinda loving it.