Set aside benchmarks, if you had to choose one to use instead of ChatGPT for the next 6 months, which one would you pick? Recently, I’ve been experiencing some extreme slow down and poor answers on GPT so I’m going to run a local backup for the time being to assist when GPT4 is down. I’m leaning towards Mistral. I can be convinced to test some others, though.
You can always test it out using runpod for around ~2 dollars an hour
OpenRouter has it, you can test it for free using their chat interface, or for $5 if you want API access. No need to install or download anything.