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Comment by Brendinooo

3 days ago

I'd really like something that's more oriented around subscription fees.

If I want to spend $100 on LLMs next month, what should I do? Get Claude because Opus 5.5/Fable 5.1 are scoring well? Get Grok because 4.7 is supposedly a good mix of competence and cost? Try out a Chinese model? Don't do a subscription at all like this site is saying?

Or get a 20$ subscription from each major provider and have 40$ spare for openrouter credits. That’s what I’m doing.

What actual usage you want ? Because imho the answer is very different if you want code, or computer use, or vision, or text analysis, or ...

The subscription from frontier labs can handle all that (though each has its best strenght, they all perform well on most things), but it's usually a bit of a waste compared to taking the best one for you.

The problem is that subscriptions with AI models get a bit 'vague' on what you get and how (or when) you might be rate-limited.