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I’m not saying you’re wrong (I have no experience), but wouldn’t it be useful to test this model out for yourself before passing judgment on it?

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Since you've volunteered as tribute, give it a shot and let us know if the quota has improved.

As tribute, I bit the bullet on the $40 plan to test out K3.1 Pro.

Still burning through the 5-hour rate limit way too quickly, though. Output quality seems solid enough, but the value will probably make a lot more sense via API pricing for smaller projects.

My current tier list based on what I’ve been testing:

1. Opus 5.5

2. Astra

3. Argon

4. Kimi K3.1 Pro

(For lightweight/daily driver tasks, Gemini Flash 3.8, DeepSeek Flash, and Luna are still up there as favorites.)

In my experience, the difference between your 1 & 2, and your 2 & 3 are huge, and I don't find Argon to be usable for any big tasks because it really does a big mess every now and then (which Astra also does but much less frequently and not in a "I just implemented something else with unusable code" way), and Placing Kimi after it seems like a very low evaluation.

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