The outcome
Select a model based on measured quality, cost, latency, safety, and operational fit.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Define the workload, modalities, context, output schema, license constraints, safety cases, budget, and scoring method.
- 02
Shortlist current serverless models and verify capability, pricing, deprecation status, and provider documentation.
- 03
Run identical examples with fixed settings and record outputs, latency, token use, cost, refusals, and formatting failures.
- 04
Use a held-out evaluation set or the evaluation service to compare finalists without tuning prompts to individual examples.
- 05
Choose a primary and compatible fallback, pin model identifiers, and establish regression thresholds for future changes.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Evaluate your real task.
- Keep a held-out test set.
- Record the exact model and parameters.
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