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I benchmarked 8 LLMs for a niche production app. The flagship cost 5.8x more - and lost.

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My app generates personalized readings for BaZi — Chinese "Four Pillars" birth charts. Every reading is an LLM call, every call costs money, and the domain is full of trap terminology that models love to botch. So before launch I benchmarked every candidate model on my actual workload, and then bui…

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  1. 2026-08-29 01:48 · DEV Community — AI
    I benchmarked 8 LLMs for a niche production app. The flagship cost 5.8x more - and lost.

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