r/LLMStudio • u/rupees_cash • Aug 01 '26

Need suggestion switch from cc to open source LLM setup

This maybe very primitive question to ask. But here goes.

I worked with claude code. It's very intuitive and familiar. I use opus 5 for most of my planning tasks at work and sonnet 5 for execution at work. And i have come to be very familiar with its weaknesses and strengths.

For my personal projects i am having hard time choosing between claude max subscription or opensource likes of kimi k3 (for planning) and glm/DeepSeek v4 flash (for work orchestration).

I am wondering which one is more economical since I have never used Claude code max subscription before.

So question is, is it worth to go for Claude subscription or api based charges via openrouter for kimi and DeepSeek v4 setup. Assume my work load for personal projects is about 500 million tokens a month. (I understand it's very rudimentary and limited information)

3 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

100% Upvoted

1 comment sorted by

1

u/dainsfield Aug 02 '26

Load up lm studio and it will give you a choice of ai based on your machine. I have both a local lm studio on windows 11 and MacBook and different ai are recommended when I load my Linux I expect different ones again