What AI do you pay for, if any?
What AI do you pay for, if any?
Claude plans for both personal and corporate. My personal is the $100 plan.
And then I have a small amount of credits for API usage on Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter.
Haven’t really jumped on the Cursor train and I think I have Jetbrains AI product sub that I should probably cancel.
Had Github Copilot for a bit a while back but canceled that.
I use the desktop/mobile app for general purpose questions/search/brainstorming.
If that’s all I needed it for I’d be on the $20 plan.
I also use Claude Code for general troubleshooting and some Ansible provisioning assistance on a home network/lab - and some light coding.
Professionally it’s similar usage - but I’m using Claude Code a lot more heavily in writing code and troubleshooting – and am semi-frequently hitting usage limits.
None… or Apple Intelligence, if you count being in the Apple Ecosystem as paying for it. The only way I know of to pay directly is to use the new creative suite, which is like $13/month. I don’t have that.
I don’t actively support (or use) any of them, and my computer/phone platform of choice since 2016 (so, before this mess) always used the derpy AI (Siri/Apple Intelligence).
me personally none, but our family has the 2tb Google drive subscription for family photos (in case of our NAS fails). That subscription comes with Gemini but I just use free chatgpt because I mostly use it as a ‘straight to the point search engine’.
For example I asked today if Vive 3.0 VR trackers work under a blanket, then a followup if competitor SlimeVR does.
Seeing as AI has been in video games since about 1977, I’d say quite a lot.
None of this new horseshit though, fuck all that. It’s just a buzzword for morons.
I pay nothing and just rotate between gmail accounts when one hits a usage limit. I have about a dozen accounts so between all of them i get about as many tokens as i would a single paid account.
I started doing it first with Cursor AI, and i still use that too, but now googles Anti-gravity gives access to Claude and the usage limits are separate from the limits for Gemini. With all of it combined I have more then enough usage to do whatever i want without paying any of the corps a dime.
I don’t pay for a single one, I’ll use their free services for a specific question to have it summarize the internet basically. I try and avoid chatgpt.
At work we have an internal AI system, and Claude. I utilize both of these to make my workload smoother - but have been finding myself just coding more often than using them because they almost all produce garbage at one point.
It’s funny considering people are clearly paying for it.
And thanks for checking in. We need more kindness like that in the world :D
I don’t pay for them yet, just use the free version for my phone, but Mistral AI seems like and ethical company.
They run a a more lightweight and environmentally friendly model and think they even open-source/weight their models too. I think like 56B parameters instead of like 600b that open ai and antrhopic probably use.
Being a smaller model it’s not as powerful as the big ones, but it’s pretty good!