I paid 9x more for the “smarter” LLM. It got exactly the same answers right.
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Most of us pick an LLM by looking at a pricing table: dollars per million input tokens, dollars per million output tokens. Then we pick the model that sounds smart enough and hope the bill is fine. That number answers the wrong question. You don't pay for tokens. You pay for a task that came out ri…
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- 2026-10-29 15:53 · DEV Community — AI
I paid 9x more for the “smarter” LLM. It got exactly the same answers right.