Which LLM should your business choose?

Every week, a new model claims to be the best. For a business, the real question is elsewhere: which one does my tasks best, with my data, at a reasonable price?

Rankings do not agree

At the time of writing, several public rankings do not put the same model first. That is normal: they do not measure the same thing. LMArena relies on user votes. Artificial Analysis compares quality, speed and price. Use them to shortlist 2 or 3 models, not to decide.

The 6 criteria that really matter

• Quality in your language.
• Accuracy on your real tasks.
• Protection of your data.
• Price for your usage.
• The size of the documents the model can read.
• The tools it can connect to.

The 4-step test

• Pick 5 real tasks: an email, a summary, a question from your field, a content idea, a table to analyse.
• Give exactly the same text to 2 or 3 models.
• Score each answer from 1 to 5.
• Add price, privacy and connections, then decide.

One model, or several?

Many businesses use several models depending on the task: a fast, cheap model for sorting, a more powerful one for analysis. A well-designed agent can pick the right model at the right time.