Yes
I spent less than 2$ of API working 4 days, which is more or less what I would've spent with Anthropic APIs for less than one task
epolanski on Hacker News
16 different real-life work tasks
In the thread “GLM 5.2 vs. Opus”, replying to this comment
Helped: Lower API costs compared to Anthropic for the same workload.
Got in the way: DS 4 had worse review capabilities and required steering on one task.
… But still, I want to emphasize, is the worst case scenarios that imho matter the most, not the best ones, and on that front Opus outperformed. That being said I spent less than 2$ of API working 4 days, which is more or less what I would've spent with Anthropic APIs for less than one task.