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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, 2026·1 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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