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I have a ChatGPT Plus subscription and OpenWebUI installed on a VPS.
OpenWebUI can query DeepSeek and LLMs from Google via API.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is very good for programming.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite is cheap but sufficient for many purposes. I'm considering building a language learning service with it.
Grok seems better than ChatGPT, but I use ChatGPT.
To write this article, "A $1,000 Gift May Be Landing In Your Backyard, Courtesy of the Soviet Union," I asked ChatGPT to calculate what percent of the Earth was land between 51.7N and 5.17S latitude. It said it couldn't. Grok responded with a half-dozen paragraphs of math and a solid answer.
I've been using Grok lately. It usually gets the job done, but recently it started replying in Chinese out of nowhere. This happened while I was working on an app with both a front end and a back end.
Lately, ChatGPT models have been pretty underwhelming. They can't seem to generate even simple code in one go. I gave Gemini a shot too, but it refused to help with a project that involved downloading YouTube videos. I really don't like being restricted or blocked from writing certain types of code, so I’m steering clear of Gemini. Grok, on the other hand, had no problem generating it.
Do you ever find discrepancies? I use the paid version of Chatgpt and have had really good results with what I need.
Using chatGPT for questions and coding. I'm surprised nobody is mentioning copilot (not using it, but corporate is pushing it)
Gemini Advanced. It was okay at first. Now it's great. Free for .edu until August 2026
Neck deep in AI myself for
Paid
Practically maxing out every service/model I use in terms of rate limits, token and message quota/message length limits LOL
Free
Openrouter has a lot of free models with rate limits. I'd start there - I've pushed 30-40 million tokens per day for free - but that was with Gemini 2.0/2.5 models before they clamped down on rate limits due to demand. But other non-Google AI models have better rate limits https://openrouter.ai/docs/api-reference/limits
Openrouter filtered free AI models list https://openrouter.ai/models?max_price=0 or free sorted by highest context token window sizes https://openrouter.ai/models?max_price=0&order=context-high-to-low
ChatGPT, mostly, and occasionally, not that frequently, Google AI studio.
Deepseek, once or twice after registration, but don't like it.
This is awesome! Getting an API key was trivial, (only wants an email address), it has a super simple API, (with Python examples), and has quite a few free models with virtually unlimited tokens. This is exactly what I needed! 😎
ChatGPT I have there pro plan for testing, But recently been using Claude 3.7 a ton
Perplexity and chatgpt
i use all of them, but preferably the ones without a moral, woken, climate-friendly or other compass. that seems to me to be deepseek at the moment, although i am aware that at least chinacriticism is also censored there.
are there any other free models that are perhaps not subject to any regulation at all?
Same here, gave deekseek a try but with code it seems to get stuck and when I give it a way to solve the issue it does but then in the next message(s) it tries to go back to the previous solution it (wrong one) it gave me
Claude and Gemini have been performing the best, although I've been only using Gemini for the past 2 days
chatgippity for coding
Self hosted gpt-oss:120b is really nice and fast, but this gpt-oss thinking:
shows the age of the data...
(I won't tell gpt-oss that it is running on Ubuntu 2404, so living in the future)
None
Claude and its good for coding
Mostly gpt for general, claude for code, some qwen for local AI agent but changed to gpt-oss when it opensource.
chatgpt premium plan I'm using to write AI articles. It creates 2 articles per minute.
Love kimi.com, the research feature is the best.
ChatGPT fixes my spelling. PentestGPT.ai lets me pretend I'm a hacker. So far, people have mistaken me for being Canadian… and a pentester.
Grok because I like its semi uncensored style.
Gemini 2.5 Pro in aistudio offers generous free credits and powerful tools.
ChatGPT and of course DediRock AI™
I'm using ChatGPT Plus for everything basically, such a nice tool to have and their new auto feature so it automatically decides to use the fast or long response model is really nice.
Also been using Dera AI, saw it on TikTok and tried it. It requires a few tries, but it can create some really nice animations.
Claude seems to be best for code/bugfixing, although sometimes it changes what it thinks commenting out means mid-convo (// vs -- vs #) but that doesn't matter because I always delete the inane comments anyway.
no sing of your @yoursunny!
Perplexity for research & some coding stuff. Gemini pro & chatgpt for blogs
Chatgpt for now, happy with it.