According to DataBricks, pi-coding-agent is ~2x cheaper than CC/Codex, GLM 5.2 on par with Opus 4.8 high

https://preview.redd.it/3p60zyf8afch1.png?width=1840&format=png&auto=webp&s=10dcc90945f0db03352239579fca2132d0c90dfa https://www.databricks.com/blog/benchmarking-coding-agents-databricks-multi-million-line-codebase tl;dr pi-coding-agent (e.g. bash for everything/minimum tools) is up to 2x cheaper an