OAI really trying to push folks to either the ad infested tier for gen chat (ChatGPT Go) or Pro ($100/month) for code.
I guess the $20 Plus plan is the red-headed step child now.
Meanwhile, Z.ai coder is what…$9/month? Hmmm.
I don’t have a local rig powerful enough to natively run a good coder (Qwen 3 next), but “I am altering the deal, pray I do not alter it any further” is THE perfect use case for running your shit locally.
PS: It looks like Pro and Plus tiers have gone up a smidge too? Eg: last I checked they were $20 and $100; they now show $30 and $155. I cancelled my account so OAI gifted me a free month (lol) but seriously…fuck that.
I’ve used Gemma4-31B for agentic coding and its actually very good as far as local models go. Its less verbose than qwen3.5 so it ends up being faster too. Gemma4-26B can do agentic but its noticeably worse so you have to go slow with it. I haven’t had any coherence issues like other commenters mention but I’ve only been using higher quality quants from unsloth on llama.cpp