Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?

9 pointsby ddxv5 hours ago4 comments

treesknees3 hours ago
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.
allinonetools_4 hours ago
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.
- ddxv3 hours ago
  Smaller niche models are ones you're running yourself locally?
waynerisner4 hours ago
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?
- ddxv3 hours ago
  I recently deleted my ChatGPT and was just looking around for what the other options are. I kinda like fast, but Grok / Perplexity are behind a perpetual CloudFlare check for me. I'm looking for something that doesn't spend forever reasoning out the answer to some basic quick question.
  It's interesting, as I type that out it makes me wonder why not just go back to the search engine since it has the AI summaries that have been getting better.
  Finally, I do also like the longer reasoning when I have a tough question and usually like to copy paste it around to various models and compare their responses.
- coldtrait4 hours ago
  Do you customize or personalize these at all? Or use it just out of the box? I use gemini for image generation and as an, assistant through my android although not frequently. As a chat assistant the online Google UI is a turnoff personally.
conception4 hours ago
Kimi models are great. Also really good at making clock faces.