haha i just downloaded pi after browsing HN for a bit. i'm really trying to get off the anthropic train before the subsidies explode and we're left holding onto codebases we don't understand and can't afford.

What models do you use for the diff level edits? My concerns would be speed, though I'm coming from letting opus ruminate for minutes at a time so my heuristics may be off.

I use a $200/mo OpenAI Codex sub. Throughout the workday I run an average of 2 concurrent agents of GPT 5.5 with high reasoning on fast mode and use less than half of my subscription usage.

For more interactive/active usage you might be better off using the low reasoning level, but I have usually found high to be a good balance of intelligence and generation speed.