I only use commercial LLM vendors who I consider to be “commercially viable.” I don’t want to deal with companies who are losing money selling me products.

For now the venders I pay for are 90% Google, and 10% combination of Chinese models and from the French company Mistral.

I love the new Gemini 3 Flash model - it hits so many sweet-spots for me. The API is inexpensive enough for my use cases that I don’t even think about the cost.

My preference is using local open models with Ollama and LM Studio, but commercial models are also a large part of my use cases.