[hirako2000]

$3 z.ai subscription? Sounds like it already burned $3k

I find those toys in perfect alignment with what LLM provider thrive for. Widespread token consumption explosion to demonstrate investors: see, we told you we were right to invest, let's open other giga factories.

[phamilton]

It's using about 100M input tokens a day on glm 4.7 (glm 5 isn't available on my plan). It's sticking pretty close to the throttling limits that reset every 5 hours.

100M input tokens is $40 and anywhere from 2-6 kWh.

Certainly excessive for my $3/month.

[OJFord]

How's it burned $3k on a $3/month subscription running for a few days?

[hirako2000]

I simply don't get how it could have run for quite a while and only cost $3. Z.ai offers some of the best model out there. Several dollars per million tokens, this sort of bot to generate code would burn millions in less than 30 minutes.

[phamilton]

> Several dollars per million tokens

The flagship, glm-5, is $1/M input tokens. glm-4.7 is $0.60/M input tokens.

[JrProgrammer]

They have a coding plan

[hobofan]

And the $3 plan also has significant latency compared with their higher tier plans.