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GPT-4o

Notable Features

Audio & image outputs Real-time interactions Cross-lingual translation 50% cheaper API

Strengths

  • + Multi-modal (text/audio/image/video)
  • + Strong reasoning & coding
  • + Fast responses
  • + Improved multilingual performance
  • + Cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo

Considerations

  • - Closed-source weights
  • - Usage-based costs
  • - Rate limits & policies
  • - Requires internet connectivity

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Notable Features

200k context window Artifacts side panel Vision support Guardrail evaluations

Strengths

  • + 200k-token context
  • + Fast & articulate responses
  • + Strong vision & reasoning
  • + Interactive Artifacts panel
  • + Safety-forward design

Considerations

  • - Closed weights
  • - Regional availability
  • - Higher output cost
  • - Limited free usage

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Notable Features

1M context & 65k output Supports video & audio input Structured outputs & code execution Context caching

Strengths

  • + 1M-token context window
  • + Native multimodal (text/image/audio/video/PDF)
  • + Function calling & code execution
  • + Caching to reduce cost
  • + Google Workspace integration

Considerations

  • - Closed source
  • - Tiered pricing complexity
  • - Features tied to Google Cloud
  • - Limited to supported regions

Llama 3 (70B)

Notable Features

Open-source weights 70B parameters Safety tools (Llama Guard 2, Code Shield) Fine-tuning ecosystem

Strengths

  • + Open weights & permissive license
  • + Strong reasoning & coding
  • + Fine-tuning & quantization support
  • + Active open-source community
  • + Good English performance

Considerations

  • - Shorter context (~8k)
  • - No multimodal capability
  • - Requires significant compute to host
  • - Limited non-English performance

Mistral Large

Notable Features

Up to 128k context Function calling & tool use Multilingual support Streaming responses

Strengths

  • + Strong reasoning & coding
  • + Multilingual (EN/FR/ES/DE/IT)
  • + Competitive pricing ($2/M input, $6/M output)
  • + Available via API & Azure
  • + Function calling support

Considerations

  • - Closed weights
  • - Shorter context than some models
  • - Not multimodal
  • - Subscription only

DeepSeek V3.2-Exp

Notable Features

DeepSeek Sparse Attention 671B MoE parameters 60 tokens/sec throughput 50% price reduction

Strengths

  • + Low cost per token
  • + Open-source Mixture‑of‑Experts
  • + 128k context
  • + Strong math & coding abilities
  • + JSON & function calling support

Considerations

  • - Experimental stability
  • - Limited language support (EN/ZH)
  • - Requires self-hosting for OSS
  • - Less mature ecosystem

Qwen 2.5 72B

Notable Features

32.8k+ context Reasoning & moderation modes Function calling & tool use Available on HuggingFace

Strengths

  • + Open-source model weights
  • + Function calling & structured output
  • + Multilingual (29+ languages)
  • + Low cost ($0.07/M input, $0.26/M output)
  • + Reasoning & content moderation modes

Considerations

  • - Complex to fine-tune
  • - Smaller community & docs
  • - Less capable than top closed models
  • - Compute heavy for local deployment

Phi-3 Medium

Notable Features

14B parameters 128k context ONNX and TensorRT packages Fine-tuning recipes and LoRA support

Strengths

  • + Open weights with commercial license
  • + 128k context window
  • + Optimized for edge GPUs and ONNX
  • + Strong code and reasoning for a 14B model
  • + Low per-token cost on Azure AI

Considerations

  • - No multimodal support
  • - Smaller community than Llama
  • - Requires quantization for consumer GPUs
  • - Lower peak reasoning vs GPT-4 class

Grok-2

Notable Features

Live X search connector Function calling and multi-step agents Vision input support Hosted on the xAI platform

Strengths

  • + Near real-time X data access
  • + 128k context with tool use
  • + Strong coding and math
  • + Playful direct responses
  • + Fast latency via xAI API

Considerations

  • - Access gated to X Premium Plus
  • - Closed-source weights
  • - Limited enterprise controls today
  • - Smaller ecosystem and docs

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