After 4 forced days on open-weight models, Burkov is impressed: $10/mo beats $20/mo Anthropic
burkov · x · 2026-09-18
Forced by OpenAI and Anthropic outages to find alternatives for four days, closed-weights-only Andriy Burkov admits he's genuinely impressed with open-weight models. DeepSeek 4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash cover his coding needs at a fraction of the price—a $10/month Go subscription with OpenCode feels infinite versus Anthropic's $20/month. He'll stick with Codex as primary agent but now tracks new open-weight releases.
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