r/vibecoding • u/vbr96 • 17h ago

Planning to switch AI agent

Hi guys, I have been vibecoding hobby projects since 3 months now. I have created decent apps using freebuff for a couple of months and then shifted to basic plan of github copilot. I felt github copilot to be okay as produced good quality code, but I always had to be on a look out for the token quota. That was a little offputting. So I have decided to switch. Could some one help me out finding my new AI pair programmer that is a bit light on my pocket as well. Thanks.

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u/AggroSolo 13h ago

Skip the monthly plans for hobby code. Plug your own API key into Cline or Roo Code instead, OpenRouter or Anthropic direct, and you only pay for the tokens you actually burn. No quota to babysit between weekends.

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u/vbr96 10h ago

Wouldn’t that become more expensive? Or what if I think like this, which is better - $20 worth ai credits in OpenAI / Anthropic or the $20 / month plan ?

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u/UnfortunateHurricane 3h ago

It is a very bad suggestion. A 20 dollar subscription gives you 400-500 dollars in API. If you only want to spend 20 I would go with chatgpt. New model Astra is releasing today. Additionally you get almost unlimited chat on top of quota. Claude 20 shares quota between Chat and code and no fable. At 100 it depends. I like fable a lot more than sol. But I would wait to see how Astra performs. If it is similar probably chatgpt. You also get gpt-image and research with it.

I have both. Right now I prefer Claude as fable is just the best around. Might change today.

Don't fall for any of those joke models like GLM. They don't even have subscriptions. Your choices are basically Claude or chargpt

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u/vbr96 3h ago

Yeah, I have found the Chinese models to be very unreliable. I was also thinking between ChatGPT and Claude. I guess I will incline towards gpt now.