Ask HN: Which "AI" provider would you choose?

1 points by EbNar 6 days ago | 5 comments

I'm looking for an "AI provider" recommendations for physics teaching and academic research. My use case requires mathematical and physics reasoning for paper parsing and PDF synthesis to generate lecture notes, exams, and problem sets. Daily volume averages would be around 100 interactions alongside 2–3 multi-page document processing tasks.

Nice to have: native web search, prompt caching for context efficiency, strict zero-data-retention or training opt-outs, and a budget of around 20ish €/month.

I've been considering Gemini pro because of its integration with NotebooklLM and other perks... I know privacy there would be a bit lacking, though. Would Claude or ChatGPT would be a more sensible choice?

Thanks a lot in advance.

coder4life 6 days ago |

Why not spend $8 this month, sign up for t3.chat (or another aggregator), and try them all out yourself?

Personally I pay for t3.chat, and because I need bigger limits for my day job programming, I have a $20 Claude memebership too

EbNar 6 days ago | |

I didn't know about t3. What about its limits? Will it fit my workload?

spottedmarley 6 days ago |

Claude Max Plan. Set it and forget it. Opus and Fable models inside of claude code is as good as it gets at the moment.

EbNar 6 days ago | |

Thanks. I forgot to mention tht I don't really need coding stuff. Plus, 90€/month is really huge.

spottedmarley 5 days ago | | |

Claude code is not just for coding, it's where you would do your research as well.