GLM 5.3 Flash has been a relevation for me. It's practically impossible to spend more than $5-$10 per day if you're only working on a single project -- but $10 is a full-day of continuous churn. First I was super sceptical about it, and always used Fable to instruct it, but now I realised that even with complex coding, it's reasonably good.
I feel like most of the latest big Chinese lab models are good enough now. If I had to pick a difference it feels like sol goes further towards 1 shotting things and needs less babysitting. But if I am actively prompting and reading the results can get just as far on a lesser model.
