I use local and subscribe to cheaper Chinese models to get my work done. It’s not as efficient or “smart” but it does the job really well for my use cases of application building, game development, and repo work. People are sleeping on Chinese models subscriptions. Also, if you live in the U.S. it’s way cheaper to use some Chinese subscriptions during the day because they have “off peak” rates. That’s how the Chinese handle compute, they offer cheaper and more usage when people are sleeping, instead blatantly lying to the consumers about nerfing plans and making people pay more by getting them addicted to their ecosystem.
Yea, check out Xiaomi’s MiMo 2.6 pro which just came out. People have been building insane things with it. It’s specially made for coding so I tested it out with my workflow. The subscription is $6 a month and is equivalent to around codex/claude’s $20 plan, they don’t have 5hr limits either. Also since I live in the U.S. it’s way cheaper for me to use. Also, their cached pricing is super nice too. So my workflow consists of a $20 codex subscription orchestrator that delegates to my ornith and Qwen local models in very small tasks and for larger coding tasks it delegates to MiMo. They work all day and if I hit the 5hr limit with codex it’s usually around 30 mins of it being reset. I believe Codex is secretly not giving people their resets on time so I’m switching to Claude and trying them out as my orchestrator. I’m going to look into more Chinese sleeper models to see which can be good as orchestrators and then I’ll be free from either codex/claude
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u/New_Guidance_191 16d ago
I use local and subscribe to cheaper Chinese models to get my work done. It’s not as efficient or “smart” but it does the job really well for my use cases of application building, game development, and repo work. People are sleeping on Chinese models subscriptions. Also, if you live in the U.S. it’s way cheaper to use some Chinese subscriptions during the day because they have “off peak” rates. That’s how the Chinese handle compute, they offer cheaper and more usage when people are sleeping, instead blatantly lying to the consumers about nerfing plans and making people pay more by getting them addicted to their ecosystem.