Claude model variants — CCA-F Exam Prep

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REAL STORY Three cars parked side by side in a showroom. Left: a Honda Civic with a price tag of $25K and a speedometer showing 'fast enough.' Middle: a BMW M3 with a price tag of $75K and a speedometer showing 'powerful.' Right: a Rolls Royce with a price tag of $350K and a speedometer showing 'the best.' Clean showroom lighting.

Three cars parked side by side in a showroom. Left: a Honda Civic with a price tag of $25K and a speedometer showing 'fast enough.' Middle: a BMW M3 with a price tag of $75K and a speedometer showing 'powerful.' Right: a Rolls Royce with a price tag of $350K and a speedometer showing 'the best.' Clean showroom lighting.

A startup spent $40,000 in one month on Claude API calls. Their accuracy didn't improve at all.

They used Opus -- the most powerful Claude model -- for everything. Customer support triage, spam filtering, content tagging, sentiment analysis. Fifty thousand API calls a day, all routed to the biggest brain in the building.