But still for US frontier you're paying 10-20x more per token compared to their limited subscriptions. For China frontier you'll be good though, and that might be the future anyway.

Relying on a single frontier model to just zero-shot all the work is so 2025.

Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 is surprisingly capable and cheap. [0]

Checkout pi coding agent. You can create as many different sub-agents as you wish, to specialize and understand and tackle or pass off any problem you like. It's refreshing, really. I feel like a coder in control again.

[0] https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731

Grok is cheaper vs real Chinese frontier aka kimi. Sponsored or not.