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I've been paying for the $20/m plan from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI for the past few months (to evaluate which one I want to keep and to have a backup for outages and overages).

Gemini never goes down, OpenAI used to go down once in a while but is much more stable now, and Anthropic almost never goes a full week without throwing an error message or suffering downtime. It's a shame because I generally prefer Claude to the others.

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Same here, but for API access to the big three instead of their web/app products, and Gemini also shows greater uptime.

But even when the API is up, all three have quite high API failure rates, such as tool calls not responding with valid JSON, or API calls timing out after five minutes with no response.

Definitely need robust error handling and retries with exponential backoff because maybe one in twenty-five calls fails and then succeeds on retry.

Invalid JSON and other formatting issues is more towards the model behavior I would say since no model guarantees that level of conformance to the schema. I wouldn't necessarily club it with the downtime of the API.

A lot of people might be discovering their preference for Claude.

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