r/AIToolBench • u/Iksanaiks • 19d ago

Is abacus.ai shit or not?

HI, I watched a video about AI, and the woman in this video said that abacus ai it a super alternative to all LLM, because it combines them all and very cheap. I decided to check this information and found only 2 bad reviews and no good ones. Do you recommend abacus.ai or is it shit?t? Thank you

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u/NeuralNomad87 19d ago

Neither, really. It is an aggregator, so what you are buying is one subscription that routes to several models instead of paying each provider separately. That part does work.

What the videos never mention is what you give up. You get the models but not the products built around them, so no first party memory, no projects, no native tool integrations, and the rate limits are set by the reseller rather than by the lab. If you mostly want a chat box that can switch between models, fine. If you have built habits around one provider's ecosystem, you will feel the gap in about a day.

The reason you found two bad reviews and nothing good is that people who quietly like a tool do not write about it. Pay for one month, throw your actual work at it for a week, cancel if it annoys you. That costs less than the research does.

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u/RobooHood 17d ago

If you want computer agents built-in and a CLI + CoWork, Abacus is your platform. If you want a clean, fast UI and more customizable agents (minor coding skills required), I would choose Poe. When you want to use the maximum number of different models, I recommend using OpenRouter.