1. Classify
Understand task risk, privacy, quality needs and the available AI stack before choosing a model.
A practical framework for builders paying for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and local AI at the same time.
Paying for several AI tools is easy. Knowing whether each subscription creates enough value to justify its cost is harder. The problem gets worse when quota limits, duplicate capabilities and manual switching hide where the work actually gets done.
Understand task risk, privacy, quality needs and the available AI stack before choosing a model.
Apply explicit policy instead of defaulting every task to the most expensive or most familiar tool.
Track useful outcomes, spend and exceptions so the routing policy improves from evidence.
Register your stack, biggest pain and reasonable price. That evidence determines what we build next.