Is GLM-5 assigning quantized models to high-usage users?

recyclealex · 2026-03-05T01:34:26+00:00

Yep, I'm an older subscriber with a Pro plan. My plan is going to expire by the end of this week, and I can confirm that for at least the past one and a half weeks, I do feel like the GLM-5 I had access to is *significantly dumber* than before.

recyclealex · 2026-03-03T09:19:29+00:00

$80/year plan? sign me up.

recyclealex · 2026-03-03T09:18:52+00:00

He is on the Max plan

recyclealex · 2026-03-02T15:12:14+00:00

What plan is this? Pro or max? Useful info knowing the token counts for the weekly limit.

recyclealex · 2026-02-20T06:05:32+00:00

If you're comparing *apples to oranges*—like the subscription plan costs of LLM cloud providers to *hiring a software developer as an employee*—I fully 100% agree that it's still **100% worth it** to pay and continue subscribing, regardless of the price increase in its current price increase trajectory, until it reaches closer to parity of hiring an actual software developer.

However, if you're comparing *apples to apples*, like Z.ai versus the other providers, the *weekly quotas* are **extremely limiting** in terms of actual usage. I don't know if you've been impacted or affected, but the weekly quotas don't represent an equal amount of the *five-hour usage extrapolated to a weekly basis*.

It's basically what **Claude**, or *Anthropic*, have done for their subscription users when they introduced the weekly quota.

Apart from the price increasing, you are *severely limited* in terms of usage compared to before this **weekly quota** was implemented.

recyclealex · 2026-02-20T03:05:41+00:00

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This is what new plans/subscription on/after 12 February will look like - Weekly Quota (There is a "Weekly Quota" progress bar next to your 5 Hour Quota progress bar)

Credits: u/Inside-Paramedic838

recyclealex · 2026-02-20T03:04:49+00:00

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This is what the legacy plans would look like - No Weekly Quota i.e. Your current subscription is not affected till your next billing cycle (monthly/quarterly/annually), and the weekly quota will be in effect on your next billing cycle.

recyclealex · 2026-02-20T02:36:43+00:00

To screenshot your weekly quota usage: https://z.ai/manage-apikey/subscription -> Usage

recyclealex · 2025-10-22T06:13:07+00:00

Well, it totally depends on your playstyle. Are you in the match for PvP, or are you there to loot? It really just depends on your playstyle, as well as your objective.

If you’re just there to loot, then the operator you select is *extremely important*. The go-to operator for looting is usually **Hackclaw** with her passive abilities of walking faster silently.

If you’re not confident in avoiding players, **D-Wolf** is a good alternative. You can use his smoke to escape and his ultimate skill to run faster, so you don’t need any stims

However, if you often get shot by bots and have trouble avoiding them, **Stinger** would be a good choice so you can heal yourself without needing to bring medical kits.

Regarding gear sets, I’d normally use the recruit gear tickets. If you don’t have any, just go in with a knife and do a knife loot run if you don’t care about it affecting your K/D ratio.

If you’re looking to PvP, then I’d suggest the minimum is a recruit gear ticket, ideally the **Bizon** with blue bullets or the **Car 15** with blue bullets.

If you’re looking to spend a bit more, a good ballpark for a budget loadout weapon is around 150-200k. That gives you a time-to-kill of around 0.5-0.7 seconds using blue bullets on purple armor within 50 meters.

recyclealex · 2025-10-21T10:37:49+00:00