I’d just use sst/opencode if using other models (I use it for Claude through Claude pro subscription too)

thanks!

Corollary if you're unfamiliar with how CC works (because you've never been able to consider it for its price, like me) – the CC client is freely available over 'npm'.

> The recent Kimi-K2 supposedly works great.

My own experience is that it is below sonnet and opus 4.0 on capability - but better than gemini 2.5 pro on tool calling. It's really worth trying if you don't want to spend the $100 or $200 per month on Claude Max. I love how succinct the model is.

> you can use CC with any model via

Anthropic should just open source Claude Code - they're in a position to become the VS Code of cli coding agents.

Shout out to opencode:

https://github.com/sst/opencode

which supports all the models natively and attempts to do what CC does

I tried gemini2.5 and while it is certainly a very strong model you really notice that it was not trained to be 'agentic'/with strong initiative for tool calling. Oftentimes it would make a plan, I'd say 'go ahead' and it just replied something like 'I made a todo list we are ready to implement' or something similar lol. You really had to push it to action and the whole CC experience fell apart a bit.

I agree, Claude models are the most agentic oriented from the ones I've tried

Where do you host Kimi-K2 ?

You can use it via openrouter.ai

gpt4.1 works surprisingly well although it is not as proactive as Sonnet.