How does Alter compare with Elephas?
TLDR: Alter offers a superior free plan, full privacy with local model support, and ready-to-use AI models from multiple providers, making it a better choice than Elephas, which is limited to 30 requests/month. Alter also includes web search capabilities, which Elephas lacks.
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Free plan |
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Most popular pricing plan | $240/year, perpetual license | $86/year, 600K text tokens per month |
Max consumption per month with a paid plan |
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Support for local models (Ollama, LM Studio) | ✅ | ❌ |
Keyboard shortcuts | ✅ Automatic, Mnemonic | 🚧 Open menu with search |
Ready-to-use AI models | ✅
Multi-providers: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Groq, Together
| ✅ OpenAI |
Support for OpenAI compatible endpoints | ✅ | ❌ |
Chat | ✅ | ✅ |
Act on screenshot capture | ❌ | ❌ |
Act on text-selections | ✅ | ✅ |
Act on files and folders | ✅ From Finder selections | 🚧 Picker, files only |
Ready-to-use AI actions | ✅ | ✅ |
Reuse AI output with other actions | ✅ | ❌ |
Voice mode | ❌ | ❌ |
Extensibility | ✅ | ✅ |
Web search, Perplexity like | ✅ | ❌ |
Native app | ✅ | ✅ |
*A message has 4296 tokens, which is roughly 3 200 words.