What Online LLM / Chat do you use?

Question

I have been wanting to try more LLMs than the standard Anthropic/Grok/ChatGPT/QwenAre there other LLM chat sites you use or recommend?

waynerisner · Accepted Answer

DeepSeek (reasoning) and Gemini (multimodal) have been useful for me &mdash; especially when I want stronger pushback or a different angle. What are you hoping to get that you&rsquo;re not getting from the usual set?

treesknees · Answer

I&rsquo;ve been using the Kagi Assistant with various models. It&rsquo;s more of a glorified search summarizer but it&rsquo;s essentially free with my existing subscription.

allinonetools_ · Answer

I tend to rotate between a few depending on the task &mdash; some are better at summaries, others handle logic better. One thing that really helps is trying smaller niche models for specific use-cases instead of always defaulting to the big ones.

conception · Answer

Kimi models are great. Also really good at making clock faces.

Fine-Palp-528 · Answer

Lumo by Proton is pretty performant. Mostly, it has an epic free tier and I dig their stance on privacy-first AI.

mongrelion · Answer

Through my Kagi subscription I get access to quite a few models [1] but I tend to rely on Qwen3 (fast) for quick questions and Qwen3 (reasoning) when I want a more structured approach, for example, when I am researching a topic.
I have tried the same approach with Kimi K2.5 and GLM 5 but I keep going back fo Qwen3.
I also have access to Perplexity which is quite decent to be honest, but I prefer to keep everything in Kagi.
1: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html#available-llms

nicbou · Answer

ChatGPT just because, then Gemini because it loads much faster. I don't have to wait a few seconds for the web UI to be ready. The frequent ChatGPT downtimes are what got me to look for alternatives.

muzani · Answer

Mistral is still a lot of fun, especially with the ChatGPT/Claude voice becoming too common. Openrouter gives you access to it for free, or you can download it to LM Studio.

What Online LLM / Chat do you use?

I have been wanting to try more LLMs than the standard Anthropic/Grok/ChatGPT/Qwen
Are there other LLM chat sites you use or recommend?

DeepSeek (reasoning) and Gemini (multimodal) have been useful for me — especially when I want stronger pushback or a different angle. What are you hoping to get that you’re not getting from the usual set?

I’ve been using the Kagi Assistant with various models. It’s more of a glorified search summarizer but it’s essentially free with my existing subscription.

I tend to rotate between a few depending on the task — some are better at summaries, others handle logic better. One thing that really helps is trying smaller niche models for specific use-cases instead of always defaulting to the big ones.

Kimi models are great. Also really good at making clock faces.

Lumo by Proton is pretty performant. Mostly, it has an epic free tier and I dig their stance on privacy-first AI.

ChatGPT just because, then Gemini because it loads much faster. I don't have to wait a few seconds for the web UI to be ready. The frequent ChatGPT downtimes are what got me to look for alternatives.

Mistral is still a lot of fun, especially with the ChatGPT/Claude voice becoming too common. Openrouter gives you access to it for free, or you can download it to LM Studio.