Chatgpt pro as an overall compromise
Claude if you want to code or do automation
Gemini if Google can get its shit together
I don't see myself using perplexity. It just summarises the top seo garbage on Google and throws it at me.
All of the above suck at image generation
So ideogram/midjourny
Stable diffusion or flux + loras if you got some 4090s lying around and need more customisation.
Video gen is expensive and not worth it unless you make money from it.
So - Kling
Audio generation - I have no idea what SOTA is here so someone is welcome to enlighten me.