I have never been so confused about an AI tool as I am now while reviewing Magai.

Speaking for myself, Magai is of no use to me. Here’s why:

First, their pricing is insane. Their cheapest monthly subscription, which comes at $19 with only a 50,000-word credit limit, is just insufficient, to say the least. With this plan, as a heavy user, I’m bound to hit my monthly limits in days instead of a month. Let alone heavy users, their starter monthly plan isn’t even adequate for an average Chat GPT-4 user.

Second, it’s loaded with features I won’t ever need or use. To me, these are just distractions.

However, this doesn’t mean that this tool is useless for everyone; it certainly has features that Chat GPT and alternatives don’t offer, features that some of you may want, though I’m sure most of you won’t need them at all.

Anyway, here’s an in-depth review of Magai and things you need to know before signing up for Magai.

User Interface

Magai’s website is the epitome of a bad UI. If you have dark mode enabled on your operating system, the website’s background color is such that it’s impossible to look at the screen for a few minutes, let alone work on it.

(If you have dark mode enabled on your operating system, the website loads into dark mode by default. Nice feature. But they should change the background color to make it comfortable rather than annoying, as it is now.)

Here’s the background color they use (note the bluish-pinkish hues):

Now compare it to Chat GPT’s soothing dark mode.

Dark mode lovers, Magai isn’t for you.

Luckily, there’s a toggle to revert to daylight mode.

In addition, the website is significantly slower compared to alternatives like Chat GPT, Poe, etc.

Large Language Models

Here’s the complete list of large language models Magai offers:

And an image-generation tool using three different models:

• Dall-E 3
• Leonardo AI
• SDXL (Stable Diffusion XL)

The image generation tool has some handy editing features, too.

However, most of these LLMs are available on Poe‘s free plan. Some, like Claude 2.1 and GPT-4 Turbo are available on Poe’s subscription plan, which costs $20 and which I prefer over Magai.

But it’s nice to have these tools available. These tools become even more helpful when used with Magai’s unique features, which I’ll discuss shortly.

Unique Features

Ken Moo has done an excellent review of Magai’s unique features; there’s no need to reproduce them here verbatim. However, here’s a list of features that I think need mentioning:

The ability to edit a response. This is a truly unique feature, as Chat GPT lets you edit your prompt but not its output. I suppose Magai remembers the edited response instead of the original one in the subsequent conversation. This is great.

Documents. Click the top right button, and Magai’s built-in document editor opens right next to the chat. The ability to chat and save/edit your work side by side is handy and impressive.

One-click save-prompt button. The second top-right button lets you access your saved prompts.

Chats are a single button away. They’re also searchable, saving you a lot of time when you have a lot of chats.

Invite other members and team them up in the workspace. You can create one or more workspaces and select your team members for each space.

Pricing and Alternatives

Paid versions of Chat GPT, Gemini, and Poe each cost around $20. And they either have no usage limits or reasonable limits (for different AI models.)

On the other hand, Magai’s cheapest plan costs $19/month with a 50,000-word (generation) limit. Their most expensive plan, Enterprise+, costs $249/mo with a monthly usage limit of 1,200,000 Words. They have several subscription plans priced between $19 and $249, but you get the idea.

Gemini Advanced is of no use, at least for now. Imagen, Google’s text-to-image generation model integrated with Gemini, sucks. In addition, Google’s “‘woke’ AI problem won’t be an easy fix.” Google is in big, big trouble. But if you’re a Google fan, you can use their free version (Gemini Pro.) For most users, it’s as good as its paid version (Gemini Ultra.)

Chat GPT is too good. Everyone and their dog are using it, and you should, too. As long as Chat GPT Plus doesn’t cost an arm and a leg (who knows when they, following Apple’s footprints, will make you pay the OpenAI tax), I don’t need Magai or a similar tool.

As for Poe, I think their free plan is more than enough for most people. From Mistral to Llama to Claude to Playground-v2.5 (a state-of-the-art image generation model, better than DALL.E-3, in my opinion) Poe’s free version has them all and more.

Final Thoughts

Magai has several unique, handy features.

However, its pricing is insane. I understand that they have to pay OpenAI and others to make some of the tools available and that their servers need electricity to run open-source models. And also that they are a start-up, a small company. However, I still think they need to lower their pricing and increase credits for their plans.

They should also work on their UI and think about including more text and image generation models.

Lastly, users have reported some pretty alarming things about them, such as they don’t let you cancel or keep charging you even after you have canceled the subscription.

These reviews seem legitimate, as this is what I encountered when trying to cancel my subscription:

I don’t get it. Why “schedule for cancelation” instead of straight away canceling my account? However, I was able to delete my account permanently. I’m happy they have that option, but using this option also deletes all of your data.