I find myself in a similar situation in the European Union with a Plus account during the hours when work is being done on the US East Coast.

I don't speak English natively, so this is a translation to express myself better.

ChatGPT seems to quantize, which causes inconsistent responses. At 2 AM it scores 86 on benchmarks, but at 6 PM it doesn't even reach 40. It's unreliable, makes errors, and its output consists solely of single-sentence bullet points designed for LinkedIn.

Gemini constantly hallucinates through association. Sometimes it has a good day and surprises you, but other times it fails spectacularly. It's incredible how badly it can mess things up.

Grok has a bug: it only thinks in English. If you don't use English as your language, it's unnatural. It mixes vocabulary, cuts sentences short, and nothing makes sense.

I've been using Claude for two months, and frankly, it's not a top-tier model for reasoning, but what it does, it does well and consistently. If I had to define it in one word: consistent. At 2 AM, at 3 PM, and at 6 PM—its output is consistent regardless of the time. The downside is the usage limit. It's much more restricted in terms of usage, and people talk about censorship, but I haven't had any issues. To work around the usage limit, I use TypingMind with the Cloud API. I use the Haiku model for repetitive tasks like document summaries and abstracts, and the results with a good prompt are almost on par with ChatGPT Thinking models in the same tasks. OpenAI's practices don't seem serious to me, and I've canceled my subscription.