Ask HN: Claude Code Alternatives

1 points by salahadawi 44 days ago | 3 comments

I'm getting tired of paying $200/month for Claude Code yet still having to deal with 5h and weekly limits, strict Fable usage limits, etc.

What alternatives have you found that get similar/better results?

joe-dakroub 44 days ago |

I believe the only real alternatives are models like GLM and Kimi, which I have read are cheaper to use and produce results on par with Claude Code from roughly 6 months ago. I've tried all of the local models that can conceivably run on a MacBook Pro with 128GB of RAM and have had poor results compared to Claude Code. I too want to use something else, ideally local. I think it is just going to take some time.

salahadawi 40 days ago | |

A 6 month difference is huge, ouch. I would've hoped that the gap was smaller by now

joe-dakroub 39 days ago | | |

Meta just released Muse Glimmer that runs locally at 30B params. Slow for most things but it does produce decent results: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-...