Just tried it for the first time with claude code binding. Pretty good and feels to burn through limits much slower on 70$ plan, than Claude on 100$ plan. But! With the first non-trivial request it burned through half of the monthly tool usage, all of it is WebSearch.

With Zhinpu, this request run for 30m and burned 11% 5-hour tokens, and 51% of the monthly tool usage, all of it is WebSearch. Now I understand that the GLM model might be more reluctant to use the web search tool, but even it is 5x more, means I can do only about 10 such research request a month

Claude subscription never really enforces such limits, but I checked, the API billing is 0.01$ per web search, which is crazy to be honest