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Per-task model selection: balancing cost and quality

Not every task needs opus / GPT-5. Give light tasks haiku / mini; reserve opus for hard ones.

Kition Team·May 5, 2026·6 min read

A recommendation table

  • Summary / translation / rewrite → haiku / mini
  • AI Field computations → haiku / mini
  • Long tasks, complex plans → opus / GPT-5
  • Browser scraping + extraction → sonnet / mid-tier
  • Code patches → opus / GPT-5

How to set this in Kition

In `Settings → Agent → Model routing`, set per-tool / per-task default models. AI Field can be configured separately.

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