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Model selection

Choosing the cheapest model that still meets the quality bar for a task, and routing simpler prompts to cheaper models. Price gaps between tiers are large but finite: Claude Opus vs Haiku is roughly 18.75x on token price, not 50-100x.

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T2 / M2.11 / L3 Model selection trade-offs

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