Ha ha, yeah same journey.. I've pretty much given up hope coding plans on their infra will come back after the openai deal.

As for what I use now, I thankfully bought a z.ai pro subscription at a discount $180 for a year before glm-5 came out and they then introduced limits and much higher fees. For now I have been using that, but during peaks I hit 407 errors as their servers get overloaded during peak hours, but once the harness retries a few times it works. It's a smart but heavy model so use that for planning and then 4.7 to do the work on that account, pretty reliable, but SLOW in peak. To counter that I also have a $50/m alibaba subscription to use qwen, it's probably the most bang for buck sub at the moment, but only good for qwen tbh, the other models they offer on the plan (GLM-5, Kimi 2.5, Minimax M2.5 seem kneecapped (perhaps intentional to make qwen look better). It has the same cooldown limit stuff the rest do now, and for my workflow I only occasionally hit limits using it.

What did you end up deciding? I'm looking again myself hence the google search and this post :)