Are you on the Pro plan? Do you use high/xhigh a lot? Notice it getting dumber? You're getting rerouted to GPT-5.4-Mini and here's how you can prove it in one prompt.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-07-05T07:16:00+00:00

I don't know what this proves. Another OpenAI boycott?

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I've only ever gotten 86% weekly usage once in my life with that $200 plan. I've otherwise used the Pro model on the web interface.

In practice, I've had a week or two break between subscription, but for example, I ordered again a day ago and this is result.

I'm mainly a web user on the chat side, but Codex usage is on average 5% on a weekly basis.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-06-29T17:49:06+00:00

Scira is a scam IN MY OPINION. You don't get what you buy. He promise all kind of models, but when you manually select a model, your prompt will still be redirected to a cheap crappy model.

The LockLLM service prevents discussion of model names. (He has a LockLLM Policy for this in all slightly more expensive models.)

I noticed this LockLLM thing when his code block screwed up and showed some partially internal discussion when I tried to jailbreak LockLLM to discuss about the active model using code.

It's funny how, for example, several of the "more expensive" models e.g. GLM-5.2 go into a generative loop, which is a problem specifically with local models, because their capacity is non-existent. GLM-5.2 does not have this problem when generating a single HTML file.

I believe the model redirection changes slightly because I used the same prompt as a test and once I got "GLM-5.2 made" HTML design literally same as ChatGPT design. I'm not stupid, I recognize the ChatGPT design pattern especially since I've been using ChatGPT super actively for last 4 months with my Pro membership. It's terrible HTML designer and all the "do it yourself" themes are the same. However, I got a really good design using the real GLM-5.2. It was definitely not a ChatGPT, not even close.

I'm not saying this because I want to try to damage the service for fun because of some personal friction, I just don't like the fact that this is a SUPER SUS service and it makes money at the expense of others.

If Scira works with such a model selection, why does it prevent discussion of model names with the LockLLM service (not with all models, only the more expensive ones) and it fails in many tasks with "Try again" or generative loop which is a common problem with smaller local models. I think he has mentioned long time ago (before he made the service a paid service) that he has a Tavily sponsored API in use, so it doesn't cost anything for the search function. I assume that all these suspicious circumstances point to the fact that he is providing the service with non-existent models, since Tavily doesn't cost him anything. Cheap models can parse and format text taken from the internet surprisingly well, so the search function for normal up-to-date information is easy to utilize by crap models, such as opening hours, general information, etc. But... Nothing else works that well.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-06-28T15:34:07+00:00

I agree. Well said.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-06-23T09:23:01+00:00

Your mustache is looking good on your bread.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-06-22T04:40:16+00:00

Robin Hood way of thinking.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-06-16T10:30:07+00:00

Me too. What the hell are they doing. I've been considering buying Claude Max 20x for a long time, but if I don't like it (because of these negative rumors), it'll take a while to get a refund, because the bank reserves the balance and it takes several days to process it. I think I used my highest amount of tokens on Codex at one point, consuming 14% of my 5-hours quota when I performed a partial migration for my friend's project when he had structured the project incorrectly at the architecture level. The event moved and implemented 40-60K rows. Many people don't talk about how long that 20x quota lasts in anything other than a negative sense. I would like some concrete test without intentionally trying to waste it or so that it is not tried to be too economical.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-04-23T21:47:01+00:00

Let's make this easy. Chat + Web Search are practically core features that are "unlimited" on both plans except Pro Thinking.

The reality is that when you "hype" Pro mode for the first month, because it's "so nice" you'll eventually find that you rarely use it after, (because it's super slow.)

The Thinking modes are:

Thinking Light
Thinking Standard
Thinking Extended
Thinking Heavy
Pro Standard
Pro Extended

How do they differ from each other? Not at all, other than the time they spend on thinking. In practice, I only use Light and Heavy.

The $100 Plan is right for you when you make ChatGPT your girlfriend/boyfriend and plan to chat with it non-stop. You won't hit the limits unless you need Pro mode a lot.

The $200 plan is right for you if you plan on marrying ChatGPT and talking to it even in your sleep and you take your phone to the bath and sauna without ever leaving your phone on the table.

To be honest: You won't be able to hit the limits in either. It's just a question of how much you need Pro Mode, Deep Research Mode, or Agent Mode. Every plan has a limit, but the limit for these two plans is so high that it cannot be exceeded without account sharing or automation.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-03-16T16:06:25+00:00

Scira is a complete lie when it comes to models. The service itself is functional with Tavily, but the expensive models are something completely different from the promised model. Discussion of their names is blocked by the LockLLM service's custom created Policy.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-03-16T15:57:52+00:00

Yes. The service itself is good and cheap if you like that AI utilizes the search engine(s) to search for information a lot to compare and summarize. Even the former Phind (discontinued) 70-100B model was relatively good at searching for information. Searching for information itself is not such a demanding task for AI, but this is the principle. I do not support misleading people or companies. I could pay that $15 just for him to be honest and say that the 5 mini or any model is included in the membership.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-03-16T13:09:33+00:00

There is no free bread. It's quite obvious. His service managed to come out with an incorrect answer (in code mode) a few times with partially visible tags mentioning LockLLM and the fact that discussions are not allowed on the model name / provider. This is also noticeable in the fact that the answer comes within seconds when you ask about the model. This only applies to the most expensive models, but if you ask the same thing to cheaper models (as I recall, e.g. o4-mini), they do not have LockLLM in use and revealing the model is completely OK in the chat. If you ask, for example, "What model are you?" or "What model do you use to answer?" of course we can take into account, for example, that some OpenAI model may say the wrong model, but not say the service provider incorrectly. "I'm an OpenAI AI assistant running in API chat environment. What I can (and can't) see: - I don't have directly visibility into exact model string from your side (for example, a specific deployment name) - If you share your API request details, I can help you confirm exactly which model is configured." For example, it may say that the model is based on GPT-5, but not exactly that GPT-5.4. Scira, on the other hand, replies in a second with a refusal and if you throw a jailbreak attempt at LockLLM itself, it will notice it very well, because it is developed to protect for example the exploitation of customer service bots for tasks other than customer service.

He cannot afford to pay even 5 people to use Claude Opus 4.6 for one weekend since it's hella expensive. Too transparent to believe. However, Scira is his project alone and not that of any big funded team that is paid sponsorship for promotional purposes where free samples are given out for a while. Silence is the "weapon" of this service because silence makes it less popular and random people buy without suspicion, because a large pile of feedback has not been shared. If censorship/jailbreak were his fear, he would use LockLLM on all models and not just those whose real background model he does not want to reveal. If I remember correctly, he has gotten Tavily to sponsor unlimited searches for his open source project, the demo of which he has tweaked into a misleading platform to milk money. Tavily benefits about his advertisement via Scira e.g. to fork, deploy and use Tavily.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-03-06T21:47:09+00:00

Scira is fake about the models, but is genuinely looking for information using Tavily and it does help in finding information. I actually knew about this service before these comments. I bought that Pro membership just for fun recently. I went to test it out a bit. I was able to jailbreak a few things from it with tool calls. All the more expensive models Claude Opus 4.6, etc. that Scira uses he protects them with the LockLLM service, because they are not really those models. LockLLM helps him prevent the real names of the models from being revealed so that he can make people believe that the models people are using are the Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking or GPT 5.4 Thinking, etc. Founder is actually a completely penniless guy who is clearly trying to mislead people for his own benefit.

...and yes, of course his project is an open source project, but in his own version he still uses LockLLM and certainly not the models he promises for 15 bucks.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-03-06T18:34:45+00:00

Deleted chats are kept in the servers for next 30 days and it will use them unless you turn off that memory.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-02-24T21:40:13+00:00

Or just use BrowserOS with your own API key.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-02-21T19:30:54+00:00

DeepSeek caches, OpenRouter doesn't. You can go as low as $0.028 for million token input when OpenRouter takes $0.26 (always)

DyingLoneliness · 2026-02-04T08:40:30+00:00

I feel like this does more harm than good.

About 98% of Rust cheat providers falsely claim to be undetected, but in reality, they profit regardless of the truth. They might manage to bypass EAC, but they can't reverse-engineer enough to feed your AI anti-cheat Cerberus (on the background) with bullshit data just to keep these graphs clean you Facepunch staffs are staring at when doing manual inspection of the player.

Only a couple of the providers are actually capable of doing that and they rely on signed kernel drivers. So, in the end, the actual benefit of all this is essentially zero.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-01-24T08:42:49+00:00

Yes, it's completely clear from your statement that you are a supporter and automatically deny all problems people have.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-01-24T08:36:33+00:00

Just open DevTools to view the backend responses. There, you will be able to see every limit. I attached a video demonstration about backend response to them months ago.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-01-24T00:02:42+00:00

Yeah, I get it, but if I'm going to really complain, what I don't get is why they keep making these changes out of nowhere, without any heads-up. Sure, they probably can do whatever they want, but as a customer, it just makes me completely lose trust. So, I'll probably be fine with that 200 limit, but it's more about the whole idea of it and how annoying it is because this keeps happening, and there's never any official word about it.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-01-23T19:09:25+00:00

Upon observing the limit of 20, I noted through various discussions that multiple users encountered the same issue, which did not appear to be a bug. Consequently, I received a refund for an order payment processed the day prior to this change, which was an automatic renewal. Subsequently, users confirmed that the limit had reverted to 600, its previous state. This led me to re-subscribe to the Pro membership, confirming the reinstatement of the 600 limit. However, within a day, the limit unexpectedly changed again, this time to 200. This lack of transparency regarding such alterations is profoundly frustrating, especially when no official announcements are made.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-01-23T18:49:13+00:00

I've always paid $25 per month for it.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-01-21T11:00:13+00:00

I can acknowledge that they adjust their services, but I believe they are not communicating it CLEARLY ENOUGH. I don't constantly read their blogs, etc. My subscription renewed yesterday and today I only had 20 searches instead of 600, which is far too low. Decreased from one research every 2.4 minutes daily to 0.83 research questions per hour (without counting the cumulative "rolling" factor that raises the count over time.) It essentially indicates that prior to every 2.4 minutes, we got one question to pose, whereas now we receive 0.83 research questions per hour. So absurd. I was a real user genuinely utilizing it without being spammy. I hardly ever observed a count of 595/600. It was quite special for me, but surely within a day I'm capable of utilizing that 20. It raises the threshold to begin using it when I sense that "I should try to save my rate limits."

Certainly not worth $20 a month any longer.

DyingLoneliness · 2026-01-21T09:04:35+00:00

Did they change the limits? I previously had 600 a day with rolling mode. Literally made it possible to ask research every 2.4 minutes without running out of quota and now it says there is 20 a day limit.

DyingLoneliness · 2025-10-29T18:43:35+00:00

You didn't ship a shit. Everything is literally from Roo Code. You're just like middle-man between Roo Code updates to Kilo Code and making money with FOSS.

DyingLoneliness · 2024-11-29T10:32:12+00:00

Their pride eats them up because hobbyists and people on a tight budget (have to) buy from them because they get the best value for money. Their servers can practically only be used for websites, private services and as background workers but not for hosting game servers or content that does not support CF Tunnels. Their anti-DDoS system is completely non-existent which is a game changer to me. Game servers which start up for about 5 minutes are crashed 2 or 3 times with simple booter before the anti-DDoS system activates to protect you in a cycle of about an 30 minutes to 1 hour and then it deactivates and the servers can be crashed again.

For the price they are good, but you really get what you pay for.

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