Ask HN: What's the most economical approach to the most tokens?
I'm doing web developement, and game development for a hobby project. I've tried lots of harnesses / IDE's - Best I've found is VSCodium.+ Cline + Openrouter, using discounted models (GLM 5.3 Flash is 50% off atm for example) I used Cursor for the last year - it's been decent. But I'm unhappy with the direction their going (it's largely just Grok Code at this stage...) Nobody advertises token limits - so it's pretty hard to compare, if you've used multiple tools in the last couple of months - what's your experience been? Will I be able to beat my Openrouter setup on cost per token via a useful model by subscribing to one of these?
In my opinion - Grok 4.6 seems comperable with GLM 5.3 Flash. Deepseek 4.1 is my daily driver. I use Sol or Fable for hard problems - but it's expensive man...
Please share your opinions.
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