The outcome

Select a model and provider policy based on measured quality, cost, latency, and privacy.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Define representative prompts, expected outputs, safety cases, context sizes, and a scoring rubric.

  2. 02

    Shortlist models that support the required modalities, tools, structured output, region, and context window.

  3. 03

    Run identical tests with fixed parameters and record quality, latency, token usage, errors, and effective cost.

  4. 04

    Inspect provider data policies and repeat tests with the routing and privacy constraints planned for production.

  5. 05

    Choose a primary and fallback set, document failure thresholds, and rerun the evaluation when models change.

Working standard

What good use looks like.

  • Use several realistic test cases.
  • Measure provider behavior, not only model labels.
  • Version the evaluation set.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.