Trusting AI Models
Benchmarks and monthly plans with great quota are one thing, but what's the point if some of these AI companies nerf the models, re-route you to cheaper ones in the background or blow your token usage fast on things like cached tokens.
There's too much marketing, what you see is often not what you get.
Having subscribed to a quite a few models over last couple of years (for coding and agentic work) here's my take on which providers are least trustworthy (keep trying to scam you in some way), to most trustworthy (often give you what they say they will). This is in my experience ( I've used all these mostly on monthly plans, some API only) and from what I've read of other people's experience in general.
Least Trustworthy group:
Gemini
Minimax
Medium group (less issues)
GLM
Kimi (unsure of Kimi at the moment)
Claude
More Reliable:
Deepseek
Mimo
Gpt
Qwen