Tools & buying
AI Model Comparison
Pick the job, set your volume, and see which class of model wins on capability and on the invoice.
Best fit for customer support chatbot
Budget mini
Fit score 80/100 · about $26 a month at your volume.
Autocomplete, tagging, cheap chat. Verify anything factual it produces.
| Model | Fit | Reasoning | Writing | Coding | Speed | Context | $/1M in | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budget miniCheapest hosted | 80 | 4/10 | 6/10 | 4/10 | 10/10 | 128K | $0.15 | $26 |
| Open-weights hostedOpen model API | 78 | 6/10 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 128K | $0.25 | $40 |
| Frontier smallHigh volume | 72 | 6/10 | 7/10 | 6/10 | 9/10 | 128K | $0.80 | $156 |
| Frontier midEveryday workhorse | 67 | 8/10 | 9/10 | 8/10 | 7/10 | 200K | $3.00 | $584 |
| Frontier largeTop-end reasoning | 53 | 10/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 4/10 | 200K | $15 | $2,920 |
Pick the cheapest model that clears the bar
Teams default to the largest model available and then get surprised by the bill. For most production work — support replies, summaries, tagging, drafting — a mid or small model clears the quality bar at a fraction of the cost, and the money saved is better spent on evaluation and retries than on raw model size.
Reserve the frontier tier for the steps where a wrong answer is genuinely expensive, and route everything else down. Prices here are directional list prices per model class — confirm current rates with your provider before committing to a budget.