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The frontier isn't just American models — we were missing half the chart

Signal's pricing calculator shipped without DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, or Mistral. A reader called it out. Here's what changed, what the corrected pricing actually shows, and when each non-US model is the right pick.

By Aditya Marin Gasga · 7 min read
19 articles, every one source-grounded
5 pillars — news to working playbooks
4 free interactive tools
7 quality checks before anything ships
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Which model should you use?

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Main workload

Use Claude Opus 4.8 — tops agentic coding and heavy multi-file work.

Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 — the best quality-for-price on writing and reasoning.

Use Gemini 3.5 Flash — cheapest and fastest for high-volume, latency-sensitive work.

Use Gemini 2.5 Ultra — strongest once you push past ~500K tokens of context.

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