AI Model Selection: Cost vs Quality vs Speed
How to weigh cost, quality, and speed trade-offs when choosing a model for a specific use case.
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Ajay Prajapat
AI Systems Architect
15+ years of experience · Ex-Apple
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About the suggested mentor
Ajay Prajapat
AI Systems Architect
- 15+ years of experience
- Ex-Apple
AI Systems Architect with 15+ years of experience, including building production GenAI systems — RAG pipelines, AI agents, prompt engineering and GenAI architecture. His sessions are hands-on: expect real workflows, live builds and honest trade-offs, not slideware.
Skills & expertise
- AI-assisted Development
- Full-stack Development
- AI Agents
- RAG & MCP
- System Design
- Project Reviews
- Prompt Engineering
- GenAI Architecture
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What this session would cover
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- 1The trade-off between larger and smaller models
- 2Estimating cost per request and per month
- 3Measuring quality on your own task samples
- 4Latency requirements for different features
- 5Routing: using different models for different steps
- 6Building a simple comparison table for a decision
Who it's for
- • Developers and product managers building AI features
- • Teams managing AI budgets
You'd leave with
- A model comparison method
- A cost estimation approach
- Criteria for model routing
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