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Finally an alternative to the big dogs that a company can use. People have been asking for a way to run the Chinese models from a trusted provider. Here GitHub delivered!

The performance, if we trust the benchmarks, put it at Sonnet 4.6.

Let’s see if it’s worth it with GitHubs pricing.

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Microsoft needs to offer cheaper option since they change to token based billing. GPT-5.4 used to be x1 for yearly subscriber but now it cost 6x. i run out the premium request for just couple prompts. Github copilot for $10 used to be the best value since you get all the US AI labs model for cheap.

CoPilot was an insanely good value while it lasted. Only moneysoft could subsidize a service that much.

> The performance, if we trust the benchmarks, put it at Sonnet 4.6.

I don't trust these benchmarks. I used a number of times Kimi K2.7 and I was disappointed. It would run in circles for things that Claude would do in one shot. However, my usage was via Ollama cloud, and I have no idea if they serve the actual model or a quantized version, and it was the quantization that degraded the performance.

The great news, in my opinion, is the precedent. If Microsoft is now serving Kimi K2.7, then very soon they might start serving GLM 5.2, and that is indeed a very competitive model.

Check your harness. I use Kimi K2.6 for a lot of stuff with OpenCode and omp and it's extremely effective. I'm gonna try 2.7, but it should be capable model based on what I've seen with previous models.

> People have been asking for a way to run the Chinese models from a trusted provider

I'm going to be called a chiller again, but at this point I don't care as it is relevant. Synthetic runs their own models for a reasonable price, GLM5.2 & Kimi K2.7-Code included.

Referral link :

https://synthetic.new/?referral=kwjqga9QYoUgpZV

Being on Copilot means your employer lets you use it at work. It's essentially Copilot's primary value add in the new billing model.

Cloudflare offers Kimi and GLM

That is probably similar for companies that rely on Cloudflare in as widespread a manner as GitHub can be.

OpenCode is an ez way as well

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