AI Model Comparison

Which AI model should you actually be running?
Not the one everyone defaults to.

Most teams pick a model by reputation, then never revisit it. Cortega's Model Recommender ranks a curated catalog of models against your actual workload, team size, and priorities, with public benchmark evidence behind every result, and shows cost, quality, and performance versus the model you run today.

Why "the model everyone uses" isn't an answer

Reputation isn't a workload, and it isn't a budget.

Defaulting to whatever model is trending skips the only questions that actually matter for your deployment: what you're using it for, how many people it serves, and what you're already paying. The Model Recommender starts from those instead.

Picking by reputation

  • Defaults to whichever model is trending, regardless of the workload behind it.
  • No visibility into the cost or quality trade-off for your specific tasks.
  • Switching models later means re-testing everything from scratch, informally.
  • No structured comparison against what you're already running.

Cortega Model Recommender

  • Ranks a curated catalog against your workloads, team size, and stated priorities.
  • Every result carries public benchmark evidence, not a reputation guess.
  • Shows cost, quality, and performance versus the model you run today.
  • Includes open-weight models in the comparison if you want them considered.
How it works

Four inputs, ranked against a curated catalog.

Free and self-serve. Tell it what you're doing, how much of it, and what matters most, and it ranks the catalog accordingly.

Workloads & scale

Pick the workloads you run and the number of people they serve.

Estimated usage

Requests per month, input and output tokens per request, pre-filled from your workloads and editable if you have measured traffic.

Base model to beat

Optionally name the model you already run. Recommendations must meet or beat it on capability, scored against it directly.

Priorities

Weight what matters most: quality, cost, coding, reasoning, chat, speed, or tool use.

Backed by the platform

Not a standalone leaderboard. Built on the same model intelligence as your gateway.

One catalog, two uses

The Model Recommender draws on the same model intelligence Cortega uses elsewhere in the platform. Pick a model here, then configure it as a routing target in your gateway.

Public benchmark evidence

Results are backed by public benchmark evidence, so a ranking is something you can check, not a black-box score.

Configure it as a routing target

Once you know which models fit, configure them in Cortega's weighted, failover, or conditional routing strategies, enforced at the gateway.

Stay current

New models ship constantly. Want to know when the ranking changes?

No sales pitch — just an email when a new model, price change, or benchmark shifts the rankings for the workload types you care about.

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