[nicpottier]

I've been struggling on finding a reasonably priced model to use with my toy openclaw instance. Opus 4.6 felt kinda magical but that's just too expensive and I'm not risking my max subscription for it.

GPT 5.4 mini is the first alternative that is both affordable and decent. Pretty impressed. On a $20 codex plan I think I'm pretty set and the value is there for me.

[GaggiX]

Open source models like MiniMax M2.5, GLM 5, Kimi K2.5 were not decent enough? (via openrouter)

[nicpottier]

I will confess that I have not had time to play with those. Will give them a try, thanks for the recommendation.

[selfhoster11]

K2.5 and GLM-4.7/-5 were good in my experience, another vote for those.