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I like GLM 5.2... ish. It's ok.

I'd be mostly fine switching to it.

I just can't find a cost effective way to do that. z.AI's coding plan is both overpriced and unreliable. ollama's is also overpriced. Paying by the token for it on openrouter etc is more expensive than just having a Codex or Claude coding plan.

If you have to pay by the token, it's clearly cheaper. It's not competitive with a coding plan though.

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It also means giving up vision which I don't know how I would deal with. I think I would prefer a weaker model with vision than a stronger without.

If you using opencode or similar you can just temporarily switch models -- in the same session -- to something that has vision and have it look at your image. And then switch back.

Or create an agent or subagent that just looks at images, and specify a vision model for that agent.

I don't see how that helps, I would still need to somehow get the image into the coding model's context.

Why's that?

vision runs just fine locally for most usecases, so it's really just a skill to call that Ollama instance

Openrouter definitely supports vision models. Why would you have to give up vision?

For example if I want to paste a screenshot of what I mean, I can't.

> Why would you have to give up vision?

Because you would have to switch model.

You can't just say "Oh, button X looks weird see [screenshot]" while coding with GLM. You would need to switch to another model and then maybe back.

It's odd that the model doesn't support it directly, but they at least have https://docs.z.ai/devpack/mcp/vision-mcp-server

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