All that keeps jumping out at me is how they've set it to refuse giving users thinking tokens and prompts for full reasoning in output. Just drives me further away; I may not stop using Claude completely for now, but I'll be moving even more of my primary workload to Chinese providers. That's where openness and freedom is now at.
What Chinese models/providers are you using for this? I'm hitting Claude's weekly limits much sooner than I used to with roughly the same workload, so I'm interested in trying alternatives, especially ones with strong coding/agentic performance.
While it's a common tactic, and I'd vouch for it if you don't really know what you want to code in fact, but if you know what you want to get out of it, I haven't found anything I'd need opus 5.5 for instead of deepseek-flash (flash v4.1 hosted via platform.deepseek.com)
Yes, openrouter providers are all over the place (in a bad way): <a href="https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/" rel="nofollow">https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/
I've experienced this firsthand and now I generally pin to providers that I trust on openrouter, or just pony up and pay for the real thing.
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A common tactic is to used a big brain model like Opus for planning and reviewing, and a cheaper model for execution.
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I've experienced this firsthand and now I generally pin to providers that I trust on openrouter, or just pony up and pay for the real thing.
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