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Best AI models for cost-sensitive tasks

Cheap-and-fast models for high-volume work where 80% quality at 5% cost is the right trade.

Triage, classification, lightweight transforms, and high-fanout fanouts (one prompt, many rows) all reward cheap models with predictable latency. Reserve the flagship LLMs for the few prompts where quality actually moves the metric.

Switchy's picks

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    Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5

    Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance...

    anthropic200K context$1.00/Mtok in
  2. 2
    Gemini 2.5 Flash

    Fast, affordable Google model with thinking

    google1049K context$0.15/Mtok in
  3. 3
    OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini

    GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's newest model after [GPT-4 Omni](/models/openai/gpt-4o), supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. As their most advanced small model, it is many multiples more affordable...

    openai128K context$0.15/Mtok in
  4. 4
    OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini

    GPT-4.1 Mini is a mid-sized model delivering performance competitive with GPT-4o at substantially lower latency and cost. It retains a 1 million token context window and scores 45.1% on hard...

    openai1048K context$0.40/Mtok in

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