On: Ask HN: How to use agents via API cheaply?

[ryanxsim]

Outside claude and codex, I use kilo code and its good so far

[thih9 → ryanxsim]

What model do you use with kilo code? What are the typical usage costs?

How would you compare it to the provider plans (in costs and efficiency)?

[ryanxsim → thih9]

Any local llm or third party outside gpt and claude. It depends on the trends sometimes deepseek, kimi or glm or sometimes gemini 3.1 pro was decent when it was decent