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Price is playing a big role in my AI usage for coding. I am using Grok Code Fast as it's super cheap. Next to it GPT-5 Codex. If you are paying for model use ou
by mohsen1 1y ago
Price is playing a big role in my AI usage for coding. I am using Grok Code Fast as it's super cheap. Next to it GPT-5 Codex. If you are paying for model use out of pocket Claude prices are super expensive. With better tooling setup those less smart (and often faster) models can give you better results.
I am going to give this another shot but it will cost me $50 just to try it on a real project :(
- muttantt 1y agohow are you using grok code fast? what tooling/cli/etc?
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- rafaquintanilha 1y agoIt’s currently free in OpenRouter.
- esafak 1y agoThrough Opencode.
- xwowsersx 1y agoSame
- hu3 1y agofree in GitHub copilot atm
- _joel 1y agoI'm paying $90(?) a month for the Max and it holds up for about an hour or so of in depth coding before it kicks in the 5-hour window lockout (so effectively about 4 hours of time when I can't run it). Kinda frustrating, even with efficient prompt and context length conservation techniques. I'm going to test this new sonnet 4.5, now but it'll probably be just as quick to gobble my credits.
- mrshu 1y agoDo you normally run Opus by default? It seems the Max subscription should let you run Sonnet in an uninterrupted way, so it was surprising to read.
- Implicated 1y agoI'm on a max ($200) plan and I only use opus and I've _never_ hit a rate limit. Definitely using for 5+ hours at a time multiple days per week.
- salomonk_mur 1y agoYou have got to have some extremely large files or something. Even with only Opus, running into the limits with the Max subscription is almost impossible unless you really try.
- xwowsersx 1y agoSame here. I've been using GCF1 with opencode and getting good results. I also started using [Serena](https://github.com/oraios/serena https://github.com/oraios/serena), which has been really helpful in a large codebase. It gives you better search than plain grep, so you can quickly find what you need instead of dumping huge chunks of code into Claude or Grok and wasting tokens.
- sixothree 1y agoSerena really does feel like a secret weapon sometimes.
- Hamuko 1y agoI'm too cheap to pay for any of them. I've only tried gpt-oss:20b because I can run it locally and it's a complete waste of time for anything except code completions.
- sixothree 1y agoI just can't bring myself to get over the grossness factor of using an x branded product.
- jjani 1y agoI really struggle to see the usecase of Grok Code Fast when you have Qwen 3 Coder right there providing much better outputs while still being fast and cheap.