# Cerebras Code

28 Hacker News commenters recommended Cerebras Code and 12 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 0.25 years (4 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended for very high token allowances and fast inference on a flat monthly fee; the most common caveat is that the models are weaker than the newest options.

## Why people recommend it

- Very fast inference speed (8 comments): "they are the fastest, and if you make heavy use their monthly subscription plan, then they're also the cheapest per token." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45855659)) "if it takes care of the boring stuff, and it is fast while doing it, I am happy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854255)) "the raw speed has considerably shifted the tipping point of time-savings for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854280))
- Generous daily token limits (4 comments): "Cerebras Code which gives you really generous token limits (like 24M per day on the 50 USD per month tier), though the GLM 4.7 model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290603)) "really generous token limits and amazing speed, but recently more downtime" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397114)) "I've also been moving around 100M tokens per week with Cerebras Code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966319))
- Low cost for heavy use (5 comments): "they are the fastest, and if you make heavy use their monthly subscription plan, then they're also the cheapest per token." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45855659)) "$600 per year is a trivial cost for a professional tool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859003)) "The preserved concentration may be well worth the $50" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854173))
- Good for simple edits (2 comments): "I just use a mix of Cerebras Code for lots of fast/simpler edits and refactoring" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391663)) "if it takes care of the boring stuff, and it is fast while doing it, I am happy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854255))

## What people warn about

- Models seen as weaker (6 comments): "I do have a Cerebras Code subscription (50 USD a month for a lot of tokens but only an okayish model)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46552392)) "It's GLM 4.7, GPT OSS 120B, or llama 3.1 8B so not exactly the latest or best models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212064)) "50 USD a month for a lot of tokens but only an okayish model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46552852))
- Daily token limits run out fast (2 comments): "They didn't seem to have prompt caching so I burnt through the daily 24M token limitations really quickly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212081)) "Still extremely fast, but in less than 1 hour I was able to use 7M input tokens" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854166))
- Recent downtime and instability (2 comments): "really generous token limits and amazing speed, but recently more downtime" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397114)) "their service wasn’t super stable last I tried" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779993))
- Code edits sometimes break code (3 comments): "Cerebras Code is nice for quick stuff and the sheer amount of tokens, but in KiloCode/... regularly messes up applying diff based edits" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46238374)) "there were about 10 different places where the migration got fucked up and had to manually be fixed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810153)) "where it fucked some code up and I had to go back to it and fix it twice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022979))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Z.ai GLM Coding Subscription](https://hackerapproved.com/p/z-ai.md): 68 recommend
- [MiniMax Coding Plan](https://hackerapproved.com/p/minimax-coding-plan.md): 8 recommend
- [Alibaba Coding Plan](https://hackerapproved.com/p/alibaba-coding-plan.md): 6 recommend
- [Kimi coding plan](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kimi-coding-plan.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.cerebras.ai/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Cerebras Code", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cerebras-code/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).