Quiz: What Does It Cost to Run? 3 questions · 80% to pass 1. What is the usual cause of the runaway AI bills in the horror stories?AI providers charging hidden fees on every requestEmployees using AI tools without permissionAI being inherently too expensive for small businessesExpensive frontier models assigned to high-volume routine work that never needed themModel pricing spans orders of magnitude, so putting the priciest model on scheduled, high-volume assembly work compounds daily. Matching model cost to job value is the fix.2. Which task is best suited to a small, fast, inexpensive model?Negotiating language in a contract with real money at stakeA scheduled daily digest that a human skims before acting on anythingA one-time analysis that will drive a major purchasing decisionDrafting a proposal that goes straight to a top clientRepetitive assembly work with a human review step downstream is exactly where small models earn their keep. Judgment work with real consequences is where frontier models are worth the premium.3. What is the sorting question for deciding which model tier a task should run on?Which model is newest and highest rated?Which model does the vendor recommend?If this output is wrong, what does it cost me?How fast does each model return an answer?The cost of a wrong answer sets the value of the job. Low-stakes output caught by a human runs cheap; decisions that can lose money or clients justify frontier-model spend. Check answers Retake quiz Back to lesson Next lesson →