No
both GLM 5.3 and Deepseek v4 ( or was it 4.1? Couldn't remember too well) went into infinite loop and wasted my tokens until my OpenRouter wallet reached 0
nsoonhui on Hacker News
In the thread “Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: Infinite loops and excessive thinking time wasted tokens and effort.
I believe so, this checks out with my experience, especially when comparing between the US models and Chinese models which benchmark scores are neck to neck with US ones. My experience with Chinese open models is that they couldn't cope at all with my production work; both GLM 5.3 and Deepseek v4 ( or was it 4.1? Couldn't remember too well) went into infinite loop and wasted my tokens until my OpenRouter wallet reached 0; good thing I didn't enable the auto topup. US models, by contrast, breezed past them. …