Quadrant — LLM Cost vs Quality
Inference cost × output quality for model routing decisions.
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title: Model Selection
x-axis: Low Cost --> High Cost
y-axis: Lower Quality --> Higher Quality
quadrant-1: Premium reasoning
quadrant-2: Best value
quadrant-3: Avoid
quadrant-4: Overkill
point: Frontier model: [0.85, 0.92]
point: Mid-tier model: [0.4, 0.75] #10b981
point: Tiny local model: [0.15, 0.4]
point: Fine-tuned 7B: [0.35, 0.6]