Startup weighs ditching Claude Code: testing GLM via LiteLLM gateway to cut agent costs
Gonjanaenae319 · reddit · 2026-09-07
A startup built its managed-agent infrastructure around Claude Code but finds relying solely on Claude too costly. The poster has connected multiple models through a LiteLLM gateway smoothly and plans to try OpenCode, Pi, and DeepSeek Harness. They ask how much tool freedom enterprises have, whether teams mix frontier models with cheaper ones like Kimi or GLM, how these perform on large codebases, and how to evaluate moving off Claude Code to cut costs.
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