I’ve been using it and I think it’s on par with sonnet.

Not OP. Chutes.ai charges $0.20 per 1M tokens. I don’t think it uses caching though because I ended up burning $30 in an hour or two. I had to move back to Claude Code.

Caching makes price comparisons hard. Does anyone have tips?

Claude Code recently showcased how powerful it can be when you don’t have to memorize commands. My AI agent works similarly. It finds the right CLI commands instead of relying on Playwright or an MCP server to perform tasks. What’s interesting is that even the agent doesn’t know many commands upfront; it simply uses the help option to discover what’s available.

I strongly agree with you. I’m more of a CLI guy, and Claude Code just works. Most good projects have a CLI anyway (gcloud, GitHub CLI, Vercel, etc.). I prefer CLI vs MCP’s. I’m on the $200 plan, and it’s absolutely worth it (never thought I’d say this for a CLI app).

But CC is more work to setup, especially if you want to use multiple models. Not even sure it supports all the models that the IDE products do.

All the AI models are no using em-dashes. ChatGPT keeps using them even after explicitly told not to. Anybody know what’s up with these models?

I don't know, but as someone who likes using em-dashes in my writing it is disappointing that they have become a marker of LLM slop.

You might want to give this a try: https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode

https://chorus.sh/ has a BYOK version Openwebui

1. Don’t you hit rate limits on Opus? Don’t you find it slow compared to sonnet?

I have not ever actually hit the rate limit as far as I'm aware. I have gotten the "approaching Opus usage limit" a couple times but have not hit it.

Interesting…

Check out zen MCP server https://github.com/BeehiveInnovations/zen-mcp-server Lets you use Gemini and OpenAI models in Claude Code.

Ooh this seems nice. Most similar solutions monkeypatch the npm package, which is a bit icky