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points by hosteur 2 days ago | 0 comments
I use Kilo Code as well (with jetbrains IDEs though). I bring my own API credits.

I am curious why you use Kilo credits? What benefits does that give you over buying the credits directly?

To me it seems like an obvious unnecessary middleman...

[–] alok-g 2 days ago
I'm doing that just to use a number of models without needing to manage separate accounts for the model providers. Kilo claims they charge at the provider's API pricing, not extra like OpenRouter does.

I am not sure however if this approach is optimal. Monthly subscriptions may be offering much higher value than API pricing.

How do you find Kilo vs. various other alternatives? I observe that it is barely talked about on HN and elsewhere. Thanks.

[–] hosteur 2 days ago
I haven't tried a whole lot. I tried Cline which I found hugely unstable and slow. I also tried the Google and Anthropic CLI ones very early on. They were a bit unstable at the time. So I guess I just stopped looking around much after trying Kilo Code because it gets the job done.

I am curious, when do you typically run different models? Do you put the same tasks to multiple models in parallel and compare the results? Or do you have a heuristic that model A is best for certain types of tasks and model B for others, etc?

I have found that recently I seem to just use deepseek for almost everything. It is just good enough and much much cheaper than everything else.

[–] alok-g 1 day ago
>> when do you typically run different models? Do you put the same tasks to multiple models in parallel and compare the results? Or do you have a heuristic that model A is best for certain types of tasks and model B for others, etc?

I am not sophisticated enough here. :-) I have just been following on experience and recommendations on HN.

>> I have found that recently I seem to just use deepseek for almost everything. It is just good enough and much much cheaper than everything else.

Will try it soon. :-)

Thanks.