Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

This is an interesting overview, thank you. Different tasks, different models, all-day-usage and pretty complete (while still opinionated, which I like).

However, checking the results my personal overall winner if I had to pick only ONE probably would be

  deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

which is a good compromise between fast, cheap and good :-) Only for specific tasks (write a poem...) I would prefer a thinking model.

Him using different ones is why I use Perplexity, I get to try different models and honestly its pretty darn decent, gives me everything in an organized way, I can see all the different links, and all the files it outputs can be downloaded as a simple zip file. It has everything from GTP5 to Deepseek R1 and even Grok.

There's other sites similar to perplexity that host multiple models as well, I have not tried the plethora of others, I feel like Perplexity does the most to make sure whatever model you pick it works right for you and all its output is usefully catalogued.