So I work remotely and manage like 3-4 projects at the same time. claude code is great dont get me wrong, the quality is there and it genuinly helps me ship faster. thats not the issue. The issue is I’m literally watching money burn everytime i start a session. longer projects eat through tokens insanly fast and when your bouncing between multiple codebases daily it adds up to a point where im questioning if this is sustainible. I have been reading alot on here and other subs about chinese models like deepseek and glm being way cheaper with decent performance. someone posted the other day that glm-5.1 is suposedly at a level where it can compete with claude code on coding tasks. havent tried it myself yet but at this point im seriously considering it just to stop the bleeding on my monthly costs. Anyone else here working remote and managing multiple projects at once? How are you dealing with the token situation? Do you just eat the cost, switch models for certain tasks, or what? genuinly need some ideas because right now the math isnt matching. submitted by /u/FortuneHonest1070
Originally posted by u/FortuneHonest1070 on r/ClaudeCode