Z.ai Coding Plan
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 21, 2025first mention
Aug 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Coding Plans by MiniMax ($20/mo for 1.7b tokens) and Z.ai (~$30/week use for $17/mo) are also tremendous value for money.”
“Switched to the z.ai coding plan”
switched from Anthropicon “Anthropic bans use of API in OpenCode CLI tool”
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“a (much cheaper) z.ai Coding Plan, which is like one fifth the cost”
bootstrapped founderon “A guide to local coding models”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- GLM-5.3 is now open-weight 1 mention
- Kimi K3 is now live 1 mention
- Anthropic bans use of API in OpenCode CLI tool 1 mention
- A guide to local coding models 1 mention
Also written as z.ai Coding Plan, z.ai coding plan. Data: z-ai-coding-plan.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“z.ai coder plan, both in opencode and direct API access.”
“Coding Plans by MiniMax ($20/mo for 1.7b tokens) and Z.ai (~$30/week use for $17/mo) are also tremendous value for money.”
“Switched to the z.ai coding plan”
“a (much cheaper) z.ai Coding Plan, which is like one fifth the cost”