I'll go ahead and say, up until now I will die on the hill of JanitorAI with deepseek as proxy
Deepseek is dirtcheap, i have paid like 2.50 bucks once, and have generated hundreds of messages from that with pretty large context sizes.
How good your answers are depends a lot on the bots themselves of course, and i think Janitor has a great selection, tho there is of course also trash, but for some examples
Tkltharia:
https://janitorai.com/characters/3d7351b0-b787-4acc-a1da-8abb6f80edc2_character-tickltharia
sounds like a dumb ass pun, but is probably the only "RPG"- like tickle bot i really like, it understasnds you well, you have an easy time steering into new szenarios at least when starting from the forest after the introduction message, and above all else, in my experience it understands tickling as a concept much better than other open ended bots, who often seem to think it would hurt, or vibrate or some other
You've got Catthulu:
https://janitorai.com/profiles/9122fc05-7d0b-4cee-a2c4-c933e4cc8f65_profile-of-catthulhu-007
making some unique, some tropy bots, usually with some neat overarching character trait or plothook
Neiro:
https://janitorai.com/profiles/4fe58966-0096-40a5-8853-65ad63bc77ba
basicly filling out his catalouge for a fantasy world, pretty much all characters tickling releated, but not completely central. allows for a bit of fluffy adventure between scenes
and if you're into weirder shit Mr.Brando:
https://janitorai.com/profiles/c3517493-c90e-48ff-b445-74c35298ea10
Guy who was already pretty early on with c.ai, has a lot of unique bots and some furry shit, probably the most just straight up horny creator on the list.
Janitor also has some generel features i like
you have custom tags, so finding things is MUCH easier than on c.ai for example, you can also look for multiple tags and a normals earch word at the same time, which you might think is just standart search options, but in my experience they ain't
The site shows you how many chats and messages a bot had, which i find usefull for finding quality things by dividing them, so a bot with 100 chats and 1K messages means that on average a user spent about 10 messages talking to them, and in my experience the higher that average number is, the better a bot will be fleshed out, compared to something that just has a lot of chats but users never get past 3 messages
the site has a own free LLM, it ain't great honestly, it has a bad habit of sending absolute walls of text every message which can be really annoying, but you can manually trim them down and then give those smaller messages 5 star ratings to infulence them, it is still annoying to do that for every chat , but it is there if you wanna try
and of course, thanks to proxy you can use any subscription you already have, with openAI and claude being out of the box support... keep in mind that not every bot has proxy enabled tho, it depends on the creator
sorry if typos, i might suffer from the stupid, have fun