I was paying openai, but with all the current politics, it looks like I’m probably going to switch to Anthropic.
I don’t have the resources or patience to run my own.
Why would I pay for a service to get things wrong. I can do that on my own for free
People pay for this shite? 🤣
All of them. Not directly, but RAM and SSD price explosions hurt. Also buying electricity for my home heater from the same market as billion dollar data centers hurt too
eh, i figure we’ll all pay for it some day, when an overzealous capitalist AI harvests the poor for raw material.
Gemini, use it a lot as an AA I’m my work, reviewing emails and RFPs
They’d have to pay ME to use their bullshit, and it wouldn’t be cheap.
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.
Mind my asking what you do that requires the high tier Claude?
Edit: what you use it for, that is :x
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.
Thank you for actually answering OPs original question and the follow up.
oh the mistake of writing “AI” in lemmy lol. I have made this mistake before, you’ll recover
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
Not much. But I did pay actual money for Sid Meier’s CivilizationⓇ VI, which includes AI that controls the computer players. That’s the one that comes to mind just because its performance was so amazingly weak.
I get the Proton AI with my subscription but barely use it
lumo. it’s (begrudgingly) been useful a few times
I make mine address me as comrade and that’s kinda fun at least.
I keep forgetting Proton has an LLM model available
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!
Perplexity
I pay for Copilot because I have an Office subscription for the family. I never asked for Copilot to be included in it, but here we are.
There is a way to downgrade to Office Family Classic that removes the co-pilot features and is cheaper.
Oooh gonna look that up tx
🙏
It’s ridiculous and should be illegal. I hope you get it figured out!
What do you need from Office that you pay for it? There are great free alternatives
Nothing. But the family wants Office and I’m not imposing my ideology on them.
Did your price change when Copilot got included?
I don’t think so
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.
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).
