After hitting Claude limits today I spent the afternoon using OpenCode + GLM 5.1 via OpenRouter and I was very impressed. OpenCode picked up my CLAUDE.md files and skills straight away, and I got similar performance to Opus 4.6.
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Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
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#172On the topic of Zed itself as a VSCode replacement - my experience is mixed. I loved it at first, but with time the papercuts add up. The responsiveness difference isn't that big on my system, but Zed's memory usage (with the TS language server in particular) is scandalous. As far as DX goes it's probably at 85% of the level VSCode provides, but in this space QoL features matter a lot. Oh, and it still can't render e…
I've been attempting to use Zed as a VSCode replacement but between the lack of bitmap font support (Criminal in an alleged code editor), and the weird UI choices, it's been hard. I want to love it, but what is "performance" if I have to spend more time working around the UI and lack of features from extensions. Strangest issue I've encountered is the colours being completely wrong when using Wayland.. colours are perfect when ran with Xwayland. I'll give it a plus though for native transparency for the background. Much nicer than having to make the entire window transparent, including the foreground text like with VSCode.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://z.ai/subscribe Many of us got the annual Lite plan when they had the $28 discount. But even at $120 I think it's a good deal.
I am trying to take this in the more giving way possible, anyone remotely considering that subscription should go on reddit and see all the people experiencing outages constantly and insanely slow speeds when it does work. I have been wanting to subscribe but based on how awful the experience is for most people, I just can’t pull the trigger
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#176People may feel differently about the fee that OpenRouter takes, but I think the service they provide is worth the extra cost. Having access to dozens of models through a single API key, tracking cost of each request, being able to run the same request on different models and comparing their results next to each other, separating usages through different API keys, adding your own presets, setting your routing rules..…
You can get the same with kilo gateway without the fee.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with you in certain circumstances, but not really for internal user inference. OpenRouter is great if you need to maintain uptime, but for basic usage (chat/coding/self-agents) you can do all of what you mentioned and more with a LiteLLM instance. The number of companies that send a bill is rarely a concern when it comes to “is work getting done”, but I agree with you that minimizing user friction is best. Fo…
The two things I like about OpenRouter: 1. The LLM provider doesn't know it's you (unless you have personally identifiable information in your queries). If N people are accessing GPT-5.x using OpenRouter, OpenAI can't distinguish the people. It doesn't know if 1 person made all those requests, or N. 2. The ability to ensure your traffic is routed only to providers that claim not to log your inputs (not even for secur…
One additional major benefit of OpenRouter is that there is no rate limiting. This is the primary reason why we went with OpenRouter because of the tight rate limiting with the native providers.
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#178After hitting Claude limits today I spent the afternoon using OpenCode + GLM 5.1 via OpenRouter and I was very impressed. OpenCode picked up my CLAUDE.md files and skills straight away, and I got similar performance to Opus 4.6.
How much did it cost for how long?
~$1/hr over 4 hours.
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to clearing the context, and I also tend to provide the right files to work on (or at least the right starting point).
I had seen prior to using the model that it starts producing much worse results when the context used is larger, so my usage style probably helps getting better results. I work like this with Claude Code anyway, so it wasn't a big change.
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#179I also dropped Claude Code Max. I switched to OpenCode Zen + GitHub Copilot. For some reason, Claude Code burns through my quota really quickly. https://opencode.ai/zen
I dislike how Zen (and many similar cases, not picking on Zen here) report being not for profit or transparent, while the auto-recharge mechanism guarantees they are sitting on a float of at least $5 per account, and presumably an average of at least $10. That's something like 50 cents of interest income per year per account. It's not nothing and it's hardly egregious fraud, but I feel if they will do this when it's…
honestly the issue with Zen is that they collect and might sell your data
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#180I am very disappointed that Anthropic killed the use of Max subscriptions for OpenClaw, especially when I never hit my usage limits on it. Perhaps I will try this combo as an alternative.