My experience

>Deepseek V3 0324
Competent at casual fun. It's basically "what if JLLM wasn't shit"
>Deepseek R1 0528
Smart and easily accessible, but has a tendency to act hostile even when it's unwarranted
>Sonnet 3.7
Genuinely great at both character and story-driven stuff
>Sonnet 4
A downgrade, I think. Seems moved away from RP towards other areas.
>Gemini 2.5 Pro
About as good as Sonnet, but has random hiccups.
>Grok 4
Sometimes great, sometimes shits itself in very strange ways.
>Opus
I'm too poor for it.

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