Comment by sigmoid10

>I just want to know what the best model is. Let me worry about how I will afford to run it.

This is a very typical manager question that I suppose many people have who fail to see the simple truth: There is no "best" model. There are only best models for certain use-cases. Sometimes you'll find these in custom community leaderboards on platforms like huggingface, but for most business applications you'll probably have to come up with your own benchmark. Most common benchmarks are pretty worthless by now because all the usual ones are being gamed hard by model providers, to the point that there are now sometimes drastic differences between models that perform very similarly on common benchmarks.