Most of us pick a model the same way: read a leaderboard, pick the best one we can afford, ship it. Then the bill arrives and the "cheap" model turns out not to be the cheap one. The reason is that there is no such thing as a cheap model.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/altrouter/the-cheap-model-is-only-cheap-for-half-your-tasks-29ac)