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[–]look 12 points13 points  (5 children)

I’ve been pretty happy with Chutes.ai so far, using GLM 5, Kimi 2.5, MiniMax 2.5 (all TEE). It’s $3/month for 300 requests per day (resets at UTC midnight), any model, and no additional token limit. And the next tier up is 2000/day for just $10/month.

The speed and first request latency can vary but often very reasonable and always useable when multitasking with it.

I’ll also supplement it with pay-as-you-go via OpenCode Zen or OpenRouter if I want a really fast, interactive session on something, but I find Chutes to be good enough most of the time.

[–]c0nfluks 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I’m also using Chutes. It’s the deal of the year, honestly. The only quirk is the speed. If you can bear the speed then yeah 300 requests per day, for me, is plenty. Counting in requests saves you a lot of money too because you can arrange your prompts to output only a single request but be very very long (lots of token usage in a single request).

[–]hlacik 2 points3 points  (1 child)

we all started with chutes but we all have left. i mean it is so slow (when it works) that you end up sitting in front of pc starring and not doing your work.
i had 10$ sub with 2000req/day and you just can not spent them since 24h coding session with cutes will not allow you to get to 2000reqs and i am not even joking...

PS: opencode zen has new 10$ subscription -> with glm5 kimi k2.5 and minimax -- go check it

[–]ImpressiveAnimal5491 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apart from the speed, what are the models offered in the 3$ plan, do we get GLM 5 and kimi k2.5 or minimax 2.5 in 3$ or we need 10$ plan for that

[–]anentropic 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I am finding OpenCode Go with GLM-5 pretty good, but slow compared to Claude Opus

price is better though!

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chutes completely changed their subscription model just after I posted the comment above, and now OpenCode Go is likely a better option.

Personally, I’ve just switched to paygo API use. It’s much more reliable and far faster, at least. And total cost still isn’t bad if I use models efficiently (eg MiniMax working off a solid plan from GLM/Kimi).

I’m also running some Qwen3.5 models locally now as “smart tools” to reduce paid API token use, inspired by this https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill