For my Illustrious bot, I have been using both jllm and proxy; different bots have different replies, and no, none is better than the others. Some are good in terms of roleplaying, some cannot access the lorebook, and some... are kind of fucked up, like DeepSeek. Even the first time I used proxy, it was kinda shit, so I've been using JLLM ever since and thought... why the proxy? Then, not too long ago, I tried several proxies; it is actually pretty good... with headaches and more tuning the model rather than chatting with it.

So how many of you guys are using a proxy? Because some of my future bots will consist of heavy tokens (3k+) and this much is enough to break both jllm and a proxy (unless you use high-end models or 16gb vram gpu).