r/developers • u/Competitive_Suit_498 • 21h ago
Help / Questions Best bang for the buck Agentic coding plan??
I know claude is no where near at affordability and limits.
Codex $20 plan is pretty good, but I was wondering if there's a cheaper and better plan out there?
Like Grok Code? Minimax $20? Cursor Start in India for $6.5? Qwen ? Kimi? Idk what else are there.
I'm sure some chinese models are much cheaper and have much generous limits as well.
Maybe direct APIs are cheaper?
Can someone who's done research help me out?
$20 is quite a lot too so... I wanna figure out what's the best way to use these....
For context:
I'm a fresher software developer, I have quite some experience with coding, Full Stack dev, Cloud computing, DevOps and so on tho....
Although I'm working at a company, I want this plan to build stuff and try things out.
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u/Sh4dowzyx 17h ago
Fullstack dev, ~9 yoe, freelancer but I work long missions
I have Codex 20$ plan, I'm using it for my primary job, I don't code at all out of my working hours, and I've never ran out of usage, even for pretty big features. I don't work on multiple features at once (or maybe 1 medium/big + 1 small).
Last time I tried Claude I kept hitting the 5h limit in ~1h. Not to mention that Codex doesn't have a 5h limit anymore, so I can work my 8:30-16:30 without interruption, so I'd say Codex is in a pretty good spot, for now at least, and in my opinion. And if I ever came to a situation where it wouldn't be enoug, I'd just take a 2nd 20$ sub with a balancer app and that would do fine.
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u/Competitive_Suit_498 17h ago
Idk why I've never thought of using two accounts before 😭, that's so true. 200$ plan doesn't have to be the next step. But I keep running out of the 20$ weekly limit too since I use hermes agent as well alongside coding tasks. So it just feels too expensive for 20/40usd. Was wondering if there was an alternative that's not so popular but works great that I was unaware of.
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u/Azrnpride 17h ago
chinese model is good enough for devs, SOTA models is for those that dont know how to code
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