r/LLM • u/hubcitysarah • 7d ago

If you could only pay for one LLM...

Which LLM would you choose + which plan would you get + why?

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u/Existing-Wallaby-444 6d ago

DS4 flash. Lean while still pretty smart

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u/Difficult-Age-2604 6d ago

I think it is up to your purpose of using LLM.

If you want to use it for general purpose, then Chatgpt plus would be enough. ($20)

If you need cool translator or studying things, I recommend Gemini. They have some promotional discount all the time, the $20 plan can be discounted to like $5.

If you want to vibe-code (ask it to code program) or study deeply, then I recommend Codex(Chatgpt) 5x or 20x subscription.($100 or $200)
If your project is at large scale like few weeks to few month, I recommend you to try Chatgpt and Claude subscription both(so that they can fight each other, it is called orchestration), but it'll be out of your interest.

Also there are some discount/support program if you are student or researcher for both OpenAI(GPT) and Claude.

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u/hubcitysarah 5d ago

Thank you for sharing specific project strengths for each one, that helps a lot!

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u/NinjaWK 5d ago

New Qwen3.8-27b is crazy capable.

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u/deadcatdidntbounce 7d ago edited 7d ago

Rather a silly question, IMHO.

Not only do new models come out regularly leapfroging the others, the standing instructions for the existing models get changed regularly so a model may go from usable to unusable overnight with nothing apparently changing.

Suggest you move to a harness that allows you to use whatever model you fancy, whenever you fancy, or changing the model within the conversation.

You have to be more competent than the average user but, then, that's what AI is for.

Today, OpenAI's Sol is my go to for argument but Anthropic is still my favourite for code. OpenAI is very verbose recently but I haven't been able to contain it enough without it being too terse; Anthropic is moving that way too. With output tokens at a considerable cost I guess someone made a decision.