octofriend

I've been using GLM-4.6 since its release this month. It's my new fav. Using it via Claude Code and the more simple Octofriend https://github.com/synthetic-lab/octofriend Hosting through z.ai and synthetic.new. Both good experiences. z.ai even answers their support emails!! 5-stars ;)

I think they mean Octofriend (https://github.com/synthetic-lab/octofriend) from Syntethci Lab (https://synthetic.new/landing/home).

I'm on plane wifi right now but I'll benchmark later today — when I benchmarked GLM-4.5, I could get 150-200tps in the Bay Area, California. Qwen3 is probably somewhat lower TBH. We have an open-source coding agent that includes a TPS benchmarker that works with any OpenAI compatible API, including ours: https://github.com/synthetic-lab/octofriend To run the TPS benchmark, just run: octo bench tps All it does is ask the model to write a long story without making tool calls (although we do send the tool definitions over, to accurately benchmark differences in tool call serialization/parsing). It usually consumes a little over 1k tokens so it's fairly cheap to run against different usage-based APIs (and only consumes a single request for subscription APIs that rate limit by request). Edit: forgot to add — for Qwen3 everything should be

I've been playing around with GLM-4.5 as a coding model for a while now and it's really, really good. In the coding agent I've been working on, Octofriend [1], I've sometimes had it on and confused it for Claude 4. Subjectively, my experience has been: 1. Claude is somewhat better at whole-codebase tasks, where you need to reason over a bunch of context and consider system interactions. 2. GLM-4.5 is somewhat better at being "honest" — i.e. I rarely see it doing the things Claude does like making broken tests pass by changing the test instead of fixing the bug. Both are quite good though, and GLM-4.5 has found bugs that both Claude 4 Sonnet and 4.1 Opus have failed to catch. In general I think Claude wins a little more frequently on debugging tasks than GLM-4.5, but it's close. Compared to GPT-5, both Claude and GLM feel like they're more

Hey HN! We're shipping Octofriend today, a cute coding assistant that can swap between GPT-5, Claude, local or open-source LLMs, etc mid-conversation as needed. It handles reasoning tokens (including encrypted ones from OpenAI and Anthropic) really well, and includes a couple of custom-trained ML models to fix minor diff edit and JSON encoding errors that we've also open-sourced. Have fun!