CASE FILE Model Selection Β§6/6
Task

Build A Model Budget Plan

Build a model budget plan for your AI course. Pick one real AI task your students will do repeatedly (e.g., generate study notes, critique an essay, brainstorm ideas). Choose a model based on cost-vs-capability trade-off. Write a one-page plan stating: (1) the task and expected token count per run, (2) your chosen model and why, (3) the monthly cost for your cohort size (if known, estimate student count and daily frequency), (4) one risk you identified (accuracy failure, speed timeout, overspend) and how you would catch it. Do not invent prices or token rates β€” link to real provider documentation or state it as a hypothetical ("If GPT-4o costs X per million tokens, then...").

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