I am a software developer working on making Minecraft plugins. I’ve been working on prompt engineering models like Qwen3.5 Plus and Step3.5 Flash just because of their prices and being free. I wanted to compare the models against ChatGPT to see if self-hosted free alternatives can be better. Step3.5 is completely free (and cheap when not using the free version) and can give excellent results. I’ve been using it more for agentic coding, but still for common tasks is still pretty good. The ability to be able to inject skills memories and custom prompts with no limits gives you full ability to fill the missing gaps on the small models and reach better results with less money. submitted by /u/LinsaFTW
Originally posted by u/LinsaFTW on r/ArtificialInteligence