After Claude ban I found my new main model

I've been using OpenClaw for months with only Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and GPT 5.3/5.4. I'm the kind of person who needs the flagship model as long as budgets are reasonable.

Claude is dead. OpenAI made business plan quotas unusable. So I went shopping for alternatives.

GLM 5.1 and 5 Turbo: absolute garbage for agentic tasks and automation. Couldn't even write a simple Reddit reply without flooding Telegram with code dumps. Felt like talking to a drunk model. Cancelled. (They said "we'll refund" — still waiting 3 weeks later.)

MiMo V2 Pro: using it since launch, really liked it. Honestly got Opus/GPT vibes in many ways. After Claude banned OpenClaw yesterday I got the Token Plan (standard $16). Terrible credit system. Everything in OpenClaw deducts from credits. Session history, bootstrap MD content, tool outputs, cache — literally everything. One month's quota gone in 1 day after filling just 2 session contexts. Horribly inefficient. I will never pay again until they fix the credit logic.

Kimi: reviews were bad, never tried.

Grok: community feedback looked bad, skipped it.

Gemini: no monthly payment option. If there was I'd probably use it, but it's too expensive.

So I went with the most popular alternative: Minimax 2.7. When MiMo and GPT failed to handle my nit cron task and Minimax M2.7 solved it in 5 minutes. And the quota on Minimax is impossible to exhaust. — I was shocked. How are they this generous? If anyone knows please explain because it really feels like it won't run out. Tested browser automations. It's not as smart as Opus, but for my automation tasks, light coding work, and being a personal agent — it's enough. If it falls short, I might rotate between a few GPT Plus subscriptions for GPT 5.4 access. Right now, price/performance-wise, Minimax and GPT Plus x 2 accounts are the only efficient OpenClaw model options I could find.