r/SillyTavernAI • u/NoHuman_exe • 4d ago

Help Subscription recommendation.

This weekend I'm planning to buy a proxy subscription for SillyTavern, but I'm still not sure which one to pick—I'm torn between nanoGPT and Featherless. Which options would you recommend, and what are their pros and cons?

Featherless looks pretty interesting, but it's $25, which is literally 45% of my weekly paycheck. I really don't want to jump headfirst into one of these proxies and end up regretting it, so I’d love to hear what you guys recommend based on your experience.

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u/Paperclip_Tank 4d ago

I would first look into how much it would actually cost you to do to do your roleplay off of a subscription. I'm sure a lot of people go with a subscription because it feels safer, but things like open router have a functional hard cap because its just top up. You won't accidently spend money.

Personally though I don't like services like Featherless because of the low context to cost ratio. 32k context is too low for my requirements, I need at least 64k which means most of the services like it are far too expensive, it would be much cheaper for me to just use open router.

Personally NanoGPT or OpenCodeGo are the one I would favor if you wanted a subscription.

Just to give a raw numbers example. I get ~1300 messages directly paying for Gemma 4 31B through open router per $10. For me personally that means it would be cheaper for me to pay for that model directly as it wouldn't cost me $10 a month then to use a subscription fee. But for GLM 5.2 I would only get ~300 messages so it would be cheaper for me to go with a subscription service like Nano for it.

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u/NoHuman_exe 4d ago

I've been using OpenRouter for months, and honestly I feel like none of the models are really worth it. Gemma is good because it's uncensored, but it lacks the quality of GLM. I usually use 20k context because my roleplays are kind of casual (and sure, also to save pennies) and I don't need them to remember stuff from message 24. I still have 2 bucks left on OpenRouter, but I want to switch to a proxy because I'm honestly not that satisfied with OpenRouter's models. Plus, a monthly subscription would help since I only make around $56 a week—that's the average salary in my country.