I have been a ChatGPT subscriber since 2022/early 2023 and have used it daily. I later switched to an enterprise account for my company. However, as alternatives improved and ChatGPT’s price increased, I decided to move on.
The tasks I primarily used ChatGPT for included:
<ul>
<li>Research paper summaries and general document summaries (4o)</li>
<li>Q&amp;A on documents (4o)</li>
<li>Understanding a topic (4o for documents, otherwise o1)</li>
<li>Brainstorming (o1 or o3-mini-high for coding projects)</li>
<li>Speech-to-text in the app, which was great for talking out ideas and pasting them into another LLM. However, I found it frustrating when it failed to process after 10 minutes of dictation, forcing me to redo everything. Other tools now handle this better.</li>
<li>Their advanced voice feature was great for quick answers—essentially replacing a “quick Google search.”</li>
</ul>
I have now canceled my subscription and am considering switching to Claude 3.7 and GitHub Copilot for coding, with DeepSeek for document summaries and general tasks.
What do you recommend?

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The author, a long-time ChatGPT subscriber, decided to cancel their subscription due to price increases and improvements in alternative tools. They primarily used ChatGPT for research paper summaries, topic understanding, coding project brainstorming, and speech-to-text applications. The author is now considering switching to Claude 3.7, GitHub Copilot, and DeepSeek for their various tasks.

I'm no longer a ChatGPT subscriber

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I too was stuck with ChatGPT. I’m going to try these today onwards.

I recommend throwing AI into garbage can. Hire QA engineer. Hire Analytic. Hire docs writer. Hire Manager. Its better to talk with real people, responsible for their actions. Robots dont care. People care.

I tried grok and it is really good and works

Honestly, I’d keep my eyes on Gemini. Their latest update has been phenomenal and Project Astra seems to be a major competitor to Meta

same here also discontinued chatgpt and looked at other options.
<ul>
<li>deepseek was the talk of the past months, but i couldn’t deal with the lacking of the features i was used to in gpt, like the fact that adding attachments fails most of the time</li>
<li>lechat mistral, does it thing and fast</li>
<li>i’m looking into <a href="http://manus.im" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">manus.im</a> and claud, but these are invite only and not accessible for outside US citizens</li>
<li>I’d like to tinker with the local stuff like ollama, but the sizes of the models are sometimes too big and/or require some setup</li>
</ul>