Chinese software always has such a design language:
- prepaid and then use credit to subscribe
- strange serif font
- that slider thing for captcha
But I'm going to try it out now.
but in my testing other models do not work well, looks like prompts are either very optimized for Claude, or other models are just not great yet with such agentic environment
I was especially disappointed with grok code. it is very fast as advertised but in generating spaces and new lines in function calling until it hits max tokens. I wonder if that isn't why it gets so much tokens on openrouter.
gpt-5 just wasn't using the tools very well
I didn't tested glm yet, but with current anthropic subscription value, alternative would need to be very cheap if you consider daily use
edit: I noticed that also have very inexpensive subscription https://z.ai/subscribe, if they trained model to work well with CC this might actually be viable alternative
Anybody who has done any serious development with LLMs would know that prompts are not universal. The reason why Claude Code is good is because Anthropic knows Claude Sonnet is good, and that they only need to create prompts that work well with their models. They also have the ability to train their models to work with specific tools and so forth.
It really is a kind of fool's errand to try to create agents that can work well with many different models from different providers.