Testing 7 Free LLMs for Formatting Recipes
Amarsir · reddit · 2026-07-15
The author fed the same messy recipe text to 7 free chat models, asking them to format it into a better Markdown document, and compared their usability. Participants included Gemini Flash Extended, Deepseek Instant/Deepthink, Muse Spark 1.1, GLM 5.2, MiMo 2.5 Pro, Grok 4.0 Fast, and Kimi 2.6 Thinking. GPT and Sonnet were only used for grading.
Main Observations
- Grok: Successfully formatted recipe names and condensed most recipes into a single sentence. Grade: D.
- Gemini: Output couldn't be copied directly; the first attempt mixed in Python commands. The second attempt was Markdown but included hallucinated content and unauthorized category changes. Grade: C.
- Deepseek: Overall good formatting; it identified missing titles and duplicate paragraphs. However, it deleted redundant information the author wanted to keep and mistakenly discarded an air fryer timing list. Grade: B.
- GLM 5.2: Poor copy experience, failed to render Markdown tags properly in the UI, and the output was incomplete.
Core Conclusion
The author's evaluation criteria were: retain all information, avoid unauthorized rewrites, and reliably output copyable Markdown. Based on the results, Deepseek excelled at information retention and structuring, despite some accidental deletions. Gemini performed the worst in terms of usability and fidelity.
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