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I'd recommend Kimi k2.6 for your use. It is an excellent model at a fraction of the cost, and you can use Claude Code with it. I did a 1:1 map of all my Claude
by taytus 5mo ago
I'd recommend Kimi k2.6 for your use. It is an excellent model at a fraction of the cost, and you can use Claude Code with it.
I did a 1:1 map of all my Claude Code skills, and it feels like I never left Opus.
Super happy with the results.
- wolttam 5mo agoI was saying the same until DeepSeek v4 this morning... sorry, Kimi. The competition is intense!
- Aldipower 5mo agoFascinated, a bummer that DeepSeek does not offer a DPA or opt-out for training. This renders it unusable for my use cases unfortunately. At least z.ai GLM has a somewhat DPA in Singapore.
- wolttam 5mo agoThe weights are open and you can use the model with any third party provider that gives you the DPA you want. For my use-case, I want the providers to get my tokens as long as they plan to keep releasing open-weight models
- ramoz 5mo agoWhat provider do you use for Kimi
- taytus 5mo agoStraight from them, but I know other providers like io.net can be faster but I like to directly support the project.
- subscribed 5mo agoThx. I'll try with my personal projects (because dues to the data collection and ToS most providers are forbidden in my company), if I can opt out of training on my input. I'm just getting a but tired of using Opus 2.6 which eats my whole allowance and then some £££ going through the 4kB prompt to review ~13 kB text file twice - and that's on top of the sometimes utter bonkers, bad, lazy answers I'm not getting even from the local Gemma 4 E4B.
- skippyboxedhero 5mo agoThe provider is a massive issue. People moving off Claude tend to assume this is solved. Claude's uptime is terrible. The uptime of most other providers is even worse...and you get all the quantization, don't know what model you are actually getting, etc.
- Leynos 5mo agoKimi 2.5 was like using Sonnet 4 on a flaky ADSL line. I haven't tried K2.6 yet, but the physical unreliability of the connection was too off-putting.
- bigethan 5mo agoOpenRouter and I'm toying around with Hermes. Seems good so far, but haven't really gotten into anything heavy yet. Though the "freedom" of not sweating the token pause and the costs not being too high is real.
- folmar 5mo agoIf you don't use a lot of quota the cheapest monthly Claude Code is $20, Kimi Code is $19, i.e. the cost difference is minuscule. Kimi wants my phone number on signup so a no-go for me.
- spaceman_2020 5mo agodid you just copy-paste or is there a difference in the way kimi uses skills?
- taytus 5mo agoI don’t have the prompt at hand but basically I told Kimi (paraphrasing): I have these Claude code skills, and I know it uses different tool calls than you but read them and re-write them as your own tools. I also created a mini framework so it can test that the skills are actually working after implementation. Everything runs perfectly.