GLM Coding Plan — Main LLM 🧠

Pricing

Lite: $3/month (first month/quarter/year paid upfront), then $6/month
Pro: $15/month (first month/quarter/year paid upfront), then $30/month
Max: $30/month (first month/quarter/year paid upfront), then $60/month
Practicality of limits: Very hard to hit even with 2–5 parallel agents on Pro and Max plans
Lite: 120 prompts per 5 hours
Pro: 600 prompts per 5 hours
Max: 2,400 prompts per 5 hours
Note: I'm on Max plan currently, but haven't hit limits when I was on Pro plan for over a month in the past aswell
IMPORTANT Integration Tools: Claude Code and Droid CLI are generally on par when it comes to efficiency in most cases. Main differences:
- Claude Code: Faster to work with and iterate on code from my experience
- Droid CLI: Better planning mode overall for complex architectures
- Tip: Planning capabilities can be improved for both tools using Clavix for prompt optimization
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Lowest cost while keeping quality around modern, commercial LLMs level
State‑of‑the‑art open‑source model
Can autonomously resolve bugs for 10–15 minutes without intervention
Handles complex projects (Next.js + complex database + backend)
Works quite well with modern web development stacks (Svelte, React, Next.js, Astro, D1 databases, Cloudflare Wrangler files, etc.)

Claude Code Max20: €200+ per month (with EU VAT)
Codex Pro: €229 in EU with VAT per month
Most alternatives will be more expensive than GLM considering the fact that GLM Coding Plan efficiently gives you A TON of tokens per 5h, not even talking about per month.

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