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Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

346 points · 138 comments · jjcm

  1. mavamaarten · · focus · HN ↗
    I'm wondering, is there a tool or something out there that helps me pick a model, in the vast sea of models out there these days? Every time I need a model for something I see the list on openrouter and I'm completely overwhelmed.

    I'd love to be able to explain my use case, my cost preferences and have a tool select a few good models to try.

    E.g. I wrote a tool that cleans out my email spam box. It classifies emails that are already flagged as spam, and if it's very obviously spam it removes it permanently (keeps a copy on disk though). And after x emails, it goes through the list of deleted spam mails and suggests email rules. What model would be best suited? I'd love to be able to explain this use case and get this info served to me. The list of models and the information about what they're good at is just too splintered and spread out. I landed on google/gemma-4-31b for now, because it's cheap and good enough and also supports Dutch and French a bit. But I can't realistically try them all.

    1. sisve · · focus · HN ↗
      Have you tried openrouters auto model? Tries to give you the best model based on prompt and price

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouter.ai&#x2F;docs&#x2F;cookbook&#x2F;coding-agents&#x2F;openclaw-integration#using-auto-model-for-cost-optimization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouter.ai&#x2F;docs&#x2F;cookbook&#x2F;coding-agents&#x2F;openclaw-i...

      1. mavamaarten · · focus · HN ↗
        I have, but honestly that was exactly what I am not looking for. Sometimes it picked a model for a Dutch email that totally does not support Dutch. Other times it would work fine. It&#x27;s just a layer of indeterminism I wasn&#x27;t looking for.
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