Which Model to Use for Different Scenarios
bindureddy · x · 2026-07-19
The author provides a cheat sheet for choosing models by use case:
- Design: GPT 5.6 / Sol
- Chat: Flash 3.5
- Simple agentic: Grok 4.5
- Medium agentic: Sonnet 4.6 / Kimi
- Hard agentic: Sol / Fable
- PDF: Grok 4.5
- Image: GPT 2.0
- Video: Seedance 2.0
- Voice: Hume / 11Labs
- Music: Suno
They also give a quick plug for ChatLLM, noting that it can unify access to these models with automatic routing.
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