Here’s what I’m currently using and how much I am paying:
Superwhisper (or other new Speech-to-Text that leverage “LLMs for rewriting” apps). Under $8.49 per month. You can use different STT models (different speed and accuracy for each) and LLM for rewriting the transcript based on a prompt you give the models. You can also have different “modes”, meaning that you can have the model take your transcript and write code instructions in a pre-defined format when you are in an IDE, turn a transcript into a report when writing in Google Docs, etc. There is also an iOS app.
Cursor Pro ($20-30/month). Switch to API credits when the slow responses take too long. (You can try Zed (an IDE) too if you want. I’ve only used it a little bit, but Anthropic apparently uses it and there’s an exclusive “fast-edit” feature with the Anthropic models.)
Claude.ai Pro ($20/month). You could consider getting two accounts or a Team account to worry less about hitting the token limit.
Chatgpt.com Pro account ($20/month). Again, can get a second account to have more o1-preview responses from the chat.
Aider (~$10/month max in API credits if used with Cursor Pro).
Google Colab Pro subscription ($9.99/month). You could get the Pro+ plan for $49.99/month.
Google One 2TB AI Premium plan ($20/month). This comes with Gemini chat and other AI features. I also sign up to get the latest features earlier, like Notebook LM and Illuminate.
v0 chat ($20/month). Used for creating Next.js websites quickly.
jointakeoff.com ($22.99/month) for courses on using AI for development.
I still have GitHub Copilot (along with Cursor’s Copilot++) because I bought a long-term subscription.
Other AI-focused courses that help me best use AI for productivity (web dev or coding in general).
Suno AI ($8/month). I might want to make music with it.
Apps others may be willing to pay for:
Warp, an LLM-enabled terminal ($20/month). I don’t use the free version enough to upgrade to the paid version.
There are ways to optimize how much I’m paying to save a bit of cash for sure. But I’m currently paying roughly $168/month.
That said, I am also utilizing research credits from Anthropic, which could range from $500 to $2000 depending on the month. In addition, I’m working on an “alignment research assistant” which will leverage LLMs, agents, API calls to various websites, and more. If successful, I could see this project absorbing hundreds of thousands in inference costs.
Note: I am a technical alignment researcher who also works on trying to augment alignment researchers and eventually automate more and more of alignment research so I’m biasing myself to overspend on products in order to make sure I’m aware of the bleeding-edge setup.
Thank you for writing this up! I’ve purchased some subscriptions and plan to block out time to play around with some of these services and get familiar with them.
Here’s what I’m currently using and how much I am paying:
Superwhisper (or other new Speech-to-Text that leverage “LLMs for rewriting” apps). Under $8.49 per month. You can use different STT models (different speed and accuracy for each) and LLM for rewriting the transcript based on a prompt you give the models. You can also have different “modes”, meaning that you can have the model take your transcript and write code instructions in a pre-defined format when you are in an IDE, turn a transcript into a report when writing in Google Docs, etc. There is also an iOS app.
Cursor Pro ($20-30/month). Switch to API credits when the slow responses take too long. (You can try Zed (an IDE) too if you want. I’ve only used it a little bit, but Anthropic apparently uses it and there’s an exclusive “fast-edit” feature with the Anthropic models.)
Claude.ai Pro ($20/month). You could consider getting two accounts or a Team account to worry less about hitting the token limit.
Chatgpt.com Pro account ($20/month). Again, can get a second account to have more o1-preview responses from the chat.
Aider (~$10/month max in API credits if used with Cursor Pro).
Google Colab Pro subscription ($9.99/month). You could get the Pro+ plan for $49.99/month.
Google One 2TB AI Premium plan ($20/month). This comes with Gemini chat and other AI features. I also sign up to get the latest features earlier, like Notebook LM and Illuminate.
v0 chat ($20/month). Used for creating Next.js websites quickly.
jointakeoff.com ($22.99/month) for courses on using AI for development.
I still have GitHub Copilot (along with Cursor’s Copilot++) because I bought a long-term subscription.
Grammarly ($12/month).
Reader by ElevenLabs (Free, for now). Best quality TTS app out there right now.
Other things I’m considering paying for:
Perplexity AI ($20/month).
Other AI-focused courses that help me best use AI for productivity (web dev or coding in general).
Suno AI ($8/month). I might want to make music with it.
Apps others may be willing to pay for:
Warp, an LLM-enabled terminal ($20/month). I don’t use the free version enough to upgrade to the paid version.
There are ways to optimize how much I’m paying to save a bit of cash for sure. But I’m currently paying roughly $168/month.
That said, I am also utilizing research credits from Anthropic, which could range from $500 to $2000 depending on the month. In addition, I’m working on an “alignment research assistant” which will leverage LLMs, agents, API calls to various websites, and more. If successful, I could see this project absorbing hundreds of thousands in inference costs.
Note: I am a technical alignment researcher who also works on trying to augment alignment researchers and eventually automate more and more of alignment research so I’m biasing myself to overspend on products in order to make sure I’m aware of the bleeding-edge setup.
Thank you for writing this up! I’ve purchased some subscriptions and plan to block out time to play around with some of these services and get familiar with them.