AI Answer Engine

Tools & buying

AI Model Comparison

Pick the job, set your volume, and see which class of model wins on capability and on the invoice.

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What are you building?

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.

AI model comparison by fit, capability and cost
ModelFitReasoningWritingCodingSpeedContext$/1M inMonthly
Budget miniCheapest hosted804/106/104/1010/10128K$0.15$26
Open-weights hostedOpen model API786/107/107/108/10128K$0.25$40
Frontier smallHigh volume726/107/106/109/10128K$0.80$156
Frontier midEveryday workhorse678/109/108/107/10200K$3.00$584
Frontier largeTop-end reasoning5310/109/109/104/10200K$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.