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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T16:30:39.000Z",
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  "textContent": "If you’re using LangChain or LangGraph, use GPT-5.4 Mini or GPT-4o Mini for agent flows and process work. Mini models are made for speed, structured tasks, and contextual workflows. Set temperature to `0` for more logical and stable outputs.\n\nUse GPT-5 or GPT-5.5 only for harder reasoning tasks depending on your budget. There’s no point using a $30/1M output token model just to summarize a PDF or extract text when GPT-5.4 Mini can do it for around $1/1M output tokens.\n\nRotate models based on the task:\n\n  * cheap/fast models for orchestration and utility work\n\n  * expensive frontier models only for deep thinking\n\n\n\n\nAlso don’t stress too much about costs initially. Try Azure AI Foundry and OpenRouter. Open-source models are getting insanely good and many of them cost almost nothing to run.",
  "title": "$5 consumed in 4 noob requests or less"
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