r/AIToolsAndTips

Kinda miffed that my wife signed up for ChatGPT Plus just to:

• ask random questions
• ask for help with social media posts
• tarot/horoscope
• fitness training plan (which is ok but not a daily thing

I don't think these use case is worthy of $20 a month (coming from a frugal guy). She's not using it for coding, automating tasks, even generating multimedia. Are there cheaper options out there that can produce similar level of results as ChatGPT? I'm looking at ollama but don't have the resource to support bigger models so worried about drop in quality.

I’m looking for a tool that actually does research and provides real insights grounded to facts and data - rather then just hallucinate training data is relevant and be overconfident - like a tool that has fundamental and technical analysis capabilities but also incorporates actual news and macro sentiment - would appreciate all suggestions

Hello everyone, curerntly looking into AEO tools with content generation or content agent capabilities. We've tried Profound but found it pretty lackluster (they're more focused on templates than actual content in my opnion) Any suggestion that you guys might have would be great.

If it matters, my niche is in the HVAC industry, so we're trying to get cited on LLms especially if people look up my town for recommendations.

Hey all! I am currently susbribed to ChatGPT plus. I like it, I don't really have an issue with it, but I keep wondering if I am missing out. My main uses:

• I am a Spanish tutor, I constantly create exercises for my students with AI and, especially, I generate presentations and worksheets. I give detailed instructions, I feed the AI with material and it just does the work for me. So far ChatGPT does not give me trouble with this.
• I also do some research and well, here I am more careful with. I ask ChatGPT to help me with sources etc, but I usually tell him to find specific content in a source. So fat it hasn't hallucinated so much. I soon will start a PhD, so I will use it quite a bit.
• Finally, I love to generate images for fun. I wish I could generate video or music/sound, but ChatGPT can't do that in Europe. I am thinking of illustrating a story for teenagers I want to write.

I just wonder. For a teacher, research and image generation (and possibly video/sound), is there a better AI? I wonder about Gemini, Claude (no image generation though😞), or any other AIs.
I just feel I am married to ChatGPT because it is the most famous one, but I don't know if there's something better.

Thanks!!

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All of our devs use AI to some extent. The amount of money we spend on AI some months is kinda high which makes me a bit sad since I wish we could use it more and more efficiently so I'm kinda at a loss at times as to what kind of strategy or solution I should implement other than just limiting tokens.

We get great results out of AI and we're absolutely more productive because of it, but I just wish it was better, it's all split between coding agents, workflows, third party and internal tools. It is worth it but costs are getting kinda high.

How much do you guys spend each month? If anyone here is in a dev team or managing one, how do you handle or strategize around the AI spend? What do you spend the most on?

What makes it so good for you?
And what’s the one thing that still annoys you about it?
I’m curious what everyone’s actually using right now

Hi everyone,
I run a Forex and trading blog and need an AI tool that handles both heavy content writing and deep editing of existing articles.
I’ve relied on Claude, but lately, the outputs feel repetitive and bland. I want to steer clear of ChatGPT and Gemini to find something more specialized.

What are your go-to alternative tools or workflows right now for specialized financial blogging?

What AI tool would be the best fit for my needs—Kiro, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor? My budget is between $20 and $30, and I am focused on building small tools and websites.

Maybe it’s just me, but AI tokens feel less and less durable lately.

Between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, coding agents, API tools, and all these different platforms, it’s getting harder to know which option is actually worth the cost. Some providers are cheaper, some are faster, some have better limits, and some are just confusing to compare.

I feel like it would be really useful if someone maintained a neutral ranking/comparison site for AI token/API providers, including things like:

\- price per token
\- supported models
\- reliability
\- speed
\- limits
\- regions/payment options
\- user reviews or verification

Basically something like a “price radar” for AI tokens and API providers, instead of everyone having to dig through random websites, Discords, Telegram groups, and official pricing pages.

Would anyone else find this useful, or is this just a niche problem?

When I first started using these tools, I was really excited. They did save a lot of time and cost (the truth is that was only at the beginning). But after using them for a while, I realized that keeping things consistent and good quality needs a lot of trial and error. Maybe only 1 out of 10 tries actually works, and honestly it gets pretty draining.
Do you guys have any tools or tips to recommend?

Can I get hermes cli agent to talk to my ai chats through my browser? has this been done? is it easy? is it worth it?

Seems the free api models arent as good as the models available on the ai websites. Since hermes can grow, on paper it seems like a great idea to constantly bounce ideas, plans, and research off of a stronger model.

i know from trying to aggregate my browser chats that there are issues with scraping chat data and interacting with the dom. if the service provider senses automated interactions with the dom then it could restrict access and they routinely change their code to avoid data scraping. thats about as far as I got in that area

honest truth is even though I have a bundle of free api's (thanks awesome free-llm-apis!) I still would much rather take advantage of what the browser has to offer if possible. I'd be down to try some free accounts first, in case they sense dom automation and restrict my account.

been on sudowrite for about a year, like it for scene stuff but the memory problem is killing me

60k words in and every session it has no idea who my characters are. I'm spending the first 20 minutes of every session just re-establishing context before I can do anything useful

feels like the tool works great for chapter 1 and gets progressively worse the deeper you get is there something that actually holds your story together across a long project or is this just the state of things