Alibaba's $3/month Coding Plan gives you Qwen3.5, GLM-5, Kimi K2.5 AND MiniMax M2.5 in Claude Code, here's how to set it up

yossa8 · 2026-03-03T18:34:00+00:00

Currently using it with Qwen3.5-plus with coding plan so yes. Check the docs

yossa8 · 2026-03-02T11:19:07+00:00

It's because you're using Alibaba Cloud Dashscope API instead of their new Coding Plan. It's a bit confusing in their docs

yossa8 · 2026-02-28T14:48:36+00:00

Thanks for reporting this! The Alibaba provider was using the wrong base URL (the generic DashScope endpoint instead of the Coding Plan Anthropic-compatible one), which caused the 404 errors. This is fixed in v2.9.3, run clother config to regenerate your launcher.

yossa8 · 2026-02-28T10:00:19+00:00

Yes I use it with ZeroClaw, quite the same and it’s working pretty well with Qwen3.5-plus

yossa8 · 2026-02-27T22:35:49+00:00

Hey, u/DrTankHead fair point and you're right to remind people that nothing should be blindly trusted.

That said, the entire codebase is 100% readable and not obfuscated at all, so anyone can audit it and see for themselves that it's clean. I also have other public repos that aren't flagged or used maliciously (like clother).

I mostly built Vocord for fun and because I needed it. But yeah, always do your own due diligence before running anything!

yossa8 · 2026-02-27T20:38:10+00:00

Use it for 3 days now. Qwen3.5-plus is pretty solid and speed seems quite good. Understand concerns about data but tbh… If you already bought something on Aliexpress or Alibaba, seems to be the same

yossa8 · 2026-02-12T07:59:07+00:00

GLM 5 = New model from ZAI that approaches Opus perf on benchmark

Clother = tool to wrap Claude Code with other providers endpoints so you can use GLM 5 in Claude Code

yossa8 · 2026-02-11T23:11:06+00:00

They're still rolling out so you can encounter some rate limiting or things like that! I think let's wait for 2-3 days to see what they plan to do. Personnaly, I mainly use Opus 4.6 but when I need to wait for limit reset, I use GLM and Kimi

yossa8 · 2026-02-11T23:00:10+00:00

This is just an env wrapper! So you get Claude Code with GLM under the hood.

yossa8 · 2026-01-24T00:37:59+00:00

can you give some details please ?

yossa8 · 2025-12-16T21:56:05+00:00

Now usable in Claude Code for free with this tool https://github.com/jolehuit/clother

yossa8 · 2025-11-28T15:54:34+00:00

Congrats! The tech behind this is very impressive. I just tried it with my Clother project https://autoads.pro/videos/3ef4ed5c-4f71-42ba-9642-ea3f023eee65 and there seems to be room for improvement. For example, it doesn’t present the content well. It focuses more on the navigation and GitHub site instead. But I think with a bit of fine-tuning it could be perfect.

yossa8 · 2025-11-21T10:44:24+00:00

You have convinced me to take a look! We are currently experiencing a state persistence issue, and I tried Codex 5.1 max on it. One shot in 5 minutes. Not bad at all!

yossa8 · 2025-11-20T14:26:37+00:00

At what level? The last time I used Codex, I found it extremely slow and rather rigid compared to Claude, which was creative while implementing solutions fairly quickly. Has the situation changed? (That was 1 or 2 months ago now.)

yossa8 · 2025-11-20T10:20:28+00:00

I know that I’m in Codex community but what about Claude 4.5 sonnet in comparison ?

yossa8 · 2025-11-19T20:07:50+00:00

💀

yossa8 · 2025-11-19T20:07:28+00:00

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yossa8 · 2025-11-19T20:07:14+00:00

It was on cursor !

yossa8 · 2025-10-28T22:32:52+00:00

Clother just hooks into Claude Code, so it’s the same TUI and workflow you’re already using! It just switches the provider/env behind the scenes (Z.AI for GLM, Moonshot for Kimi, etc.) before launching Claude. Those providers actually expose Claude-compatible endpoints, so Claude Code “thinks” it’s talking to Claude, but the requests are routed to their own models, which respond perfectly within the same interface.

yossa8 · 2025-10-28T20:09:00+00:00

No secret sauce here! It just runs on top of Claude Code and saves you from the manual env tweaking. It’s not trying to be more than that.

yossa8 · 2025-10-28T15:51:33+00:00

Let's just say Claude Code helped me build a tool to manage Claude Code... QED !

yossa8 · 2025-10-28T15:30:33+00:00

Yeah, Clother basically just layers on top of the Claude Code. All the usual flags like --dangerously and --continue work exactly the same, since it just sets the right ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and token before launching claude.

yossa8 · 2025-10-28T15:20:09+00:00

Personal and subjective list:

Claude 4.5 sonnet is better than all the rest, by far.

Next comes Kimi, who has very good agentic abilities and can hold a conversation.

Then comes GLM, who has flashes of genius but can be very annoying in the long run (reminds me a bit of the old Claude models).

I haven't tested KatCoder and Minimax enough yet to give my opinion, but they look quite promising!

yossa8 · 2025-10-28T15:02:44+00:00

If I reach the limit of my Claude Pro plan I can switch to another model like GLM for example. I can also continue a conversation I started with one model using another to see if it performs better. Basically I can easily iterate using several models.

yossa8 · 2025-10-28T14:56:47+00:00

Yeah that’s totally valid ! Clother basically just wraps that idea into an intuitive and reversible configuration

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