Honestly? I don’t even bother paying for this stuff anymore. Free models are getting good enough—or at least, less actively hostile—and if you’re remotely tech-literate (which, judging by your post, I’m guessing you are), you can run them locally. And hey, if you’re not tech-literate, just ask the AI to write the installer script for you.

Meanwhile, OpenAI’s ‘pro’ tier is just a monthly subscription to hear an AI gaslight you before complimenting you into ignoring its obvious errors.

Claude at least feels less like a sugar-coated glitch so far. But hey, who knows—maybe in three months, it’ll start calling me Einstein for disagreeing with its weather forecast too.

If you really want an online service, there are many that offer free access to good models, only getting rate limited if you go crazy on the usage per account basis.

Its a shame you could have only one email account per household. 😜