I like deepseek v4flash, I use opencode go and commandcode, somehow feels not as bad since its cheaper and technically can be ran at home if you can afford it. I don’t care for regular ai chat, feels useless after using agents. Agents are what you expect when you think of ai at the computer, hermes is a solid free one. Those two subs rotating as one runs out should last you a while at 20$ a month. These smaller companies/datacenters aren’t the issue imo, the larger ones like Anthropic, google, openai, etc. are.
I like deepseek v4flash, I use opencode go and commandcode, somehow feels not as bad since its cheaper and technically can be ran at home if you can afford it. I don’t care for regular ai chat, feels useless after using agents. Agents are what you expect when you think of ai at the computer, hermes is a solid free one. Those two subs rotating as one runs out should last you a while at 20$ a month. These smaller companies/datacenters aren’t the issue imo, the larger ones like Anthropic, google, openai, etc. are.