I have never been this disappointed with a purchase before.Z.ai advertises that the Light plan offers 3x the usage of Claude Pro, and that the Pro plan offers 5x the Light plan — which effectively suggests you are getting 15x the usage of Claude Pro.I purchased the Z.ai Pro plan today, and in less than two hours I had already consumed more of my five-hour quota than I typically use during four hours on Claude Pro.It is completely fair if GLM-5 consumes more resources. That is not the issue. The problem is advertising that users get 15x more value, when in reality the experience does not even come close to matching Claude’s actual usable time.In addition, the coding quality has produced significantly more errors compared to Claude Code in my testing. That makes the value proposition even harder to justify.What frustrates me most is not the performance itself — it is the misleading marketing. If the plans had been presented transparently, I could have made an informed decision. Instead, I feel like I fell directly into an exaggerated marketing campaign.Based on my experience, I cannot recommend Z.ai at this time.
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