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Choosing AI Models on Cost and Performance

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Picking an AI model requires balancing benchmark scores against runtime costs, but popular formulas often produce completely different winners from the exact same data. A simple cost-to-performance ratio inevitably favors cheap models with unusable scores unless filtered by a quality floor. Exploring methods from Pareto frontiers and knee-finding to weighted sums and TOPSIS reveals why selecting…