I have

• Claude code / GPT subscriptions
• openrouter about $30 to $50/month
• venice.ai about $30 to $50/month

I am constantly testing and have found that deepseek v4 flash, glm 5.3 flash and GPT 5.6 Luna do a pretty decent job with most simple tasks. So often they are the ones I go to first for the simple stuff or do a first pass for a lot of things. It depends whether I still have credits for the claude / gpt plans

You can really do quite a bit with deepseek v4 flash cheaply. Also, remember that you pay a lot more for output than for input so if you had something like

• Deepseek does most of the work
• A more expensive model checks <--- there is a lot less writing there

Or if you want model diversity

• Deepseek flash 0731 does work
• GLM 5.3 flash doest first round of checks
• More expensive model checks

Not sure if you are using PRDs or a more free-format development.. if you are using PRD suggest this

• Create your tasks
• Have Tencent Hy3 (not hy4) / GLM 5.3 flash review the task and give feedbacks. Imagine you have task.md then task-hy3.md and task-glm.md then use GPT Luna to review all 3
• DSF 0731 does work
• your choice of reviewer(s)

That will likely increase your quality for relatively little cost. Suggest you try and automate as much as possible.

I have found that multi model workflows, at least for me, increases quality, at the expense of time and complexity.