A cheap model thinks. A polished model publishes.
The expensive one reads less, so the bill shrinks.
I use reasoning models, at very low cost,
to distill my prompts into smaller prompts.
In my experience they think well but write plainly.
They play chess. They can even build a chess game.
So I let them do the thinking.
I do not ask them for the polish.
Publishing models, like Claude Fable,
render the finished output.
They carry a lot of content,
and a lot of refinement from users.
That polish is why they cost more.
The polished model reads the small prompt,
not the big one. Fewer tokens at the high price.
We count tokens for every query.
So the difference shows up in the numbers.
87 models, from 7 vendors.
One of them is Anthropic. We buy from all of them.
Counted as of October 1, 2026.
This is a big distinction.
We choose the model for each job.
Open Earthgrid.ai The private island Stop chatting. Start building.
I show it live, with a prompt from the room.
We shrink it, then publish it.