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Don't sleep on MiniMax or GLM - they're cheap, and can truly give Opus and GPT/Codex a run for their money. This is why if you're fiddling with Clawdbot, you might just want to give it a MiniMax subscription.
For a project, I used MiniMax M2.1 and if it wasn't covered by the coding plan, I would have paid $64.09 in API costs (get that $20 coding plan - its super generous, and if you hit limits, there's a $50 variant).
Analysed the export, and if it was GPT-5.2-Codex it would have been $379.80, Gemini 3 Pro would be $430.65, and Claude Opus 4.5 $1,072.37.
To be clear, I'd have gotten quite a bit of mileage with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI on the $20 plan but not this much I reckon, followed by ChatGPT (though I think $20 wouldn't be enough). It's a no brainer that Claude would never have delivered on such a small plan.
Looks like MiniMax is generally worth using if you're into coding. Usage fully via opencode for me in this particular project.
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