Thanks for the article. I'm also doing a similar thing, here are my tips:

- https://chutes.ai - 200 requests per day if you deposit (one-time) $5 for top open weights models - GLM, Qwen, ...

- https://github.com/marketplace/models/ - around 10 requests per day to o3, ... if you have the $10 GitHub Copilot subsciption

- https://ferdium.org - I open all the LLM webapps here as separate "apps", my one place to go to talk with LLMs, without mixing it with regular browsing

- https://www.cherry-ai.com - chat API frontend, you can use it instead of the default webpages for services which give you free API access - Google, OpenRouter, Chutes, Github Models, Pollinations, ...

I really recommend trying a chat API frontend, it really simplifies talking with multiple models from various providers in a unified way and managing those conversations, exporting to markdown, ...