Model Routing Benchmark: Sol High is More Stable
petburiraja · reddit · 2026-07-11
The author created a set of role-specific local benchmarks to determine which model or tier to route different tasks to within Codex/CLI workflows.
Key Conclusions
- For strategic decision-making, Sol high closely matches reference results while saving time and reasoning tokens compared to Sol max.
- For repo-driven execution briefs, Sol medium is faster and uses significantly fewer reasoning tokens than high, though high retains a slight edge in dependency reasoning.
- For bug-fixing tasks with planted bugs, multiple implementation paths passed tests on the first try, showing these lower-tier models can work stably on constrained tasks.
Routing Recommendations
- main strategic session: Sol high
- main operational session: Sol medium
- consequential review: Sol xhigh
- manual deep review: Sol max (use sparingly)
- read/map/cleanup: GPT-5.4 mini low
- tight tested implementation: Sol low
- implementation rollback: GPT-5.4 medium
Notes
The author highlights limitations: small sample size, evaluator knowledge of model identities, CLI overhead affecting latency, and results being local workflow references rather than general intelligence rankings.
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