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Do you need to run the model on your own computer (privacy/offline)? │ ├─ YES → Can your GPU fit >16GB VRAM? │ │ │ ├─ YES → Use Llama 3.1 70B (or Mixtral 8x22B) │ └─ NO → Use Llama 3.1 8B, Phi-3-mini, or Gemma 2 9B │ └─ NO → Use a cloud API. What's your budget per million tokens? │ ├─ <$0.30 → Gemini 1.5 Flash, Claude Haiku, GPT-4o-mini ├─ $2-5 → GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet (best for reasoning) └─ $10+ → GPT-4 Turbo, Claude Opus (only for legal/medical)
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