Paid AIs expire in two days. This isn’t sustainable, but there’s nothing to be done. So, what’s the best AI to use after premium AIs expire? GPT-5 Mini?
If you need to code - grok-code-fast-1 (the model good enough at coding, but not planning or research)
If you are brainstorming some logic - gpt-5-mini (the model is not as smart but does the job well with correctly provided context)
If you need to write text or search something - gemini-2.5-flash (the model is great at writing PR descriptions, code comments, finding stuff in codebase and helping understand what code is doing)
Another honorable mention is grok-3-mini - its okayish in logic-based tasks (it was the gpt-5-mini of the industry before grok-4 came out)