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CrofAI (nahcrof) Pay-As-You-Go

LLM 6.4/10

Dirt-cheap open-model PAYG with disclosed quants: GLM-5.2 (Q8_0) $0.50/$2.20 per 1M, Kimi-K2.7-code (int4) $0.55/$2.25, GLM-5.1 $0.45/$2.15, Qwen3.5-397B (Q4_0) $0.35/$1.75, DeepSeek-V4-Pro $0.35/$0.80; OpenAI-compatible endpoint

CrofAI (nahcrof) Pay-As-You-Go scores 6.4/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Paid — Pay-as-you-go (subscriptions removed May 31 2026). Dirt-cheap open-model PAYG with disclosed quants: GLM-5.2 (Q8_0) $0.50/$2.20 per 1M, Kimi-K2.7-code (int4) $0.55/$2.25, GLM-5.1 $0.45/$2.15, Qwen3.5-397B (Q4_0) $0.35/$1.75, DeepSeek-V4-Pro $0.35/$0.80; OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Category LLM Kind Paid plan Caveats Confirmed one-person operation — fragile (models sometimes unusable/non-responding); mid-tier speeds (GLM-5.2 ~66 tok/s, K2.7 ~67 tok/s); Kimi served at int4, Qwen-397B at Q4_0 (not full precision); no Anthropic-native endpoint

Free value score

6.4 / 10
Show the math
Model Quality 9.2/10
value = 51 artificial_analysis_score
weighted score = 0.2 * 9.2/10
Access 10/10
value = 10/10
weighted score = 0.1 * 10/10
Price Efficiency 5.1/10
value = 1081081 tok/$
weighted score = 0.7 * 5.1/10

Key metrics

GLM-5.2 51 Best model
$0.925/M Price

What you get

Paid — Pay-as-you-go (subscriptions removed May 31 2026). Dirt-cheap open-model PAYG with disclosed quants: GLM-5.2 (Q8_0) $0.50/$2.20 per 1M, Kimi-K2.7-code (int4) $0.55/$2.25, GLM-5.1 $0.45/$2.15, Qwen3.5-397B (Q4_0) $0.35/$1.75, DeepSeek-V4-Pro $0.35/$0.80; OpenAI-compatible endpoint

Among the cheapest GLM-5.2 + Kimi K2.7 per token (~1/3 of official API prices; ZenMux PAYG now undercuts it) — honest quant disclosure, solo-operator risk

Gotchas

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Sources

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Open service ← All LLM

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