Been doing the same thing for client work over the past year. Claude for long drafts, Perplexity for research, a couple of image tools, different summarizers depending on the format. Each one has its own logic, its own way of surprising you or failing you at the worst moment. The individual costs keep dropping, which looks great on paper. Chinese models are undercutting everything, open source is genuinely closing the gap, API pricing is getting squeezed hard. Pertoken costs are falling fast. ...