
Product Engineering
Five AI models, five jobs: the 2026 stack
Frontier benchmarks have converged. The price spread is 178×. The best AI model isn't a thing — the best for each job is. Here's the 2026 stack.
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Frontier benchmarks have converged. The price spread is 178×. The best AI model isn't a thing — the best for each job is. Here's the 2026 stack.

Three models, three prices, twenty-fold savings if you cache and batch. The reference I send new hires when they ask 'what should I know about Claude?'

Three diagrams, three architectures, one front door. The clearest way to understand why teams move from a single server to microservices behind an API gateway.