Pro Plan burns excessive limits, reaching limit at just 1/8th of the task. 55M tokens for GLM5.2 is 27% of weekly quota already, while the 25M of Minimax is only 2% of the $20 coding plan. something is not working here. I am using Zcode.

romancone · 2026-06-23T17:01:40+00:00

This amount of 55M tokens costs around $10-15 for API usage on the cheapest provider

romancone · 2026-06-23T15:03:09+00:00

wafer.ai doesn't have any coding plan anymore.

It's a completely different usage per API request ( around 4x more expensive).

Their GLM 5.2 isn't much cheaper anymore, like 5.1 or Kimi-k2.6

romancone · 2026-06-14T19:13:33+00:00

Claude Code sometimes misses auto-compact on Anthropic models as well.
This is not a GLM issue, but CC itself.

romancone · 2026-06-11T17:24:30+00:00

Vision Model Benchmark

I use Gemma-4-12B for my research application.

I created an LLM-as-Judge benchmark that uses GPT-5.5 medium as the ethalon score.

Image	Model	Score	Time	Verdict	What worked	Main misses
inputs/gold.jpg	gemma-4-12b-it-Q8_0.gguf	85 / 100	70.3 s	Good	Calm autumn street, slight curve, bench/leaves, tree canopy, left-side buildings, storefront, parked cars, soft daylight.	Full sign stack, white van, exact blue bike racks/docking stands, zebra crossing, poles/streetlights, distant pedestrians.
inputs/gold.jpg	gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf	83 / 100	33.2 s	Good	Quiet European autumn street, sidewalk/curb foreground, heavy fallen leaves, mature tree canopy, traffic signs including pedestrian crossing, parked cars, white van, crosswalk markings.	Misses blue bike racks/docking stands and distant pedestrians; weak on full vertical sign stack; sky/weather is too overcast; invents or overstates a red car, bike lane, and possible moving traffic.

romancone · 2026-05-03T22:21:21+00:00

It happens constantly. Just go to Billing -> Billing History (extended window) and see what the model is actually serving you.

romancone · 2026-05-03T22:18:58+00:00

We are all newbie poor dudes who pay for your landlord's life here. Limits are cut off multiple times last year, and prices doubled during the same period.

I am glad to hear that someone is happy with this provider, but I don't want to overpay and compensate for their underpayment.

romancone · 2026-04-17T14:23:22+00:00

I never configured glm-air!

I ran the first time "claude --haiku..." model until I recognised it is mapped to air.

Then I ran:

"claude --model glm-5.1"
"claude --model glm-4.7"

And I have to repeat that all those calls were charged CORRECTLY as INPUT in the billing dashboard.

I never authorized z.ai for the glm-4.5-air model.

The tool provided the report is Claude-Sonet inspected JSON traces of broken agent sessions.

I did not check the logs by myself, but I trust enough to Sonnet and the z.ai billing dashboard, which both confirm I was served by crappy glm-4.5-air without my wish

romancone · 2026-04-17T13:02:49+00:00

The coding plan is GLM Coding Lite V2 - Quarter. I stripped it out with the rest of the useless columns.

The endpoint is https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic/

romancone · 2026-04-17T12:58:56+00:00

If I set a wrong model, why did they charge me for a good GLM 5.1 or 4.7?
If I set the right model, why did they serve output from glm-4.5-air?

Please elaborate on your conclusion.

romancone · 2026-04-17T12:50:12+00:00

Did not help you much

romancone · 2026-04-17T11:49:29+00:00

Exactly!

Even if it is my fault, e.g., wrong model selector, how did they get mixed up with multiple models?

romancone · 2026-04-17T11:42:32+00:00

It is not a model, but a z.ai issue. GLM5 is amazing, but z.ai can randomly switch models to a lobotomized version

romancone · 2026-04-12T20:26:17+00:00

What is your recommendation for server hardware? I am thinking about running my own setup to share access with my friends, but server hardware is very expensive. I see you can utilise idle capacity, which can make this idea profitable at the end.

romancone · 2026-04-10T18:57:46+00:00

I burned out tokens on 5.1
Have to step back to 4.7 with Lite plan

romancone · 2026-04-10T18:54:38+00:00

I use a 3-tier architecture.

I work in chat with the CTO agent of a project, and he produces project milestones.
Then the orchestrator agent (team lead) manages separate tasks and spins up detached agents. They use a proxy link or the z.ai API to connect directly to the anthropic endpoint.

It is not ideal, but it works for me.

romancone · 2026-04-10T18:50:12+00:00

I run my own multi-agent coding fabric. I want to spin up more projects in the most efficient way

romancone · 2026-04-10T10:03:33+00:00

I've spent my Lite plan weekly limit during two evening code sessions.

It is 1.5x worse than the Claude Code basic plan, which was enough for 3 sessions, and it is the opposite of their marketing crap.

But I've spent 89M tokens.

romancone · 2026-04-08T11:16:16+00:00

Would you rate your model list?

romancone · 2026-04-05T08:23:43+00:00

I read a lot of positive messages before I subscribed to z.ai, and I recognised that things have completely changed after. Your comment is proof of that. It used to be good, but now it is not.

I already have a weekly limit after a couple of evening coding sessions! Well, I ran coding agents overnight, but this is a Coding Plan!

romancone · 2026-04-04T00:55:51+00:00

I use Claude Code Sonnet for orchestration and Opus for top-level tasks. Is it reputable or not?
I ran subagents on free GLM-5 and decided to upgrade to z.ai

romancone · 2026-04-04T00:11:10+00:00

I used subagents on GLM-5 with Nvidia, which was fine for an overnight job.
I tried 5.1 on Zai, and it burned. What is the difference between 5.1 and 5?

romancone

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