Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT

Re:Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT by fatbrowndog on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:37AM (#48081297)

not good. I use DeepSeek's plan, Kimi AI, OpenRouter and it seemly consumes more tokens, than Claude's.

I consume Claude ~30% per day in of, 1 week, Max,x20. Equivalent in Kimi Ai, is I consume 60% in one day, in one week.

DeepSeek/Latest, 95% discount, with cache, I rack up ~$60/day before I stopped.

I don't know how Claude compute their daily limits, it seems much cheaper.

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Re:Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT by Jsttan on Sunday May 10, 2026 @02:18AM (#48081462)

Which DeepSeek plan did you use? I been trying to find a DeepSeek for a while but with no success. I tried to use Claude $20 plan before, token burn like it is air, would be quite hard to believe anything else would burn so fast?

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Re:Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT by fatbrowndog on Sunday May 10, 2026 @10:51AM (#48084469)

I'm using the deepseek-v4-pro model is currently offered at a 75% discount. My bad it's 75% discount, via OpenRouter.

I use the Claude-Max-20 ($200) plan. I manage to max it out 2 weeks. Planning to move to maybe multiple accounts.

I use C++ and Claude for big code-base.

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