CHOOSING AN AI MODEL: ONE PROMPT, 11 MODELS, VERY DIFFERENT RESULTS

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

A range of AI models, including DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi, were tested for generating web pages, showing large variations in performance and credit costs. The best-performing models for a static coffee shop website were DeepSeek V4 Flash, which consumed only 2.4 credits on average, and GPT 5.6 Sol in low effort mode, which averaged 141 credits. In contrast, higher-tier models like Claude Opus 5 showed a lot of credit usage with results that didn't necessarily justify their cost.