The right model
for your task
A lanista owned a gladiator troupe: he knew each fighter's strengths, weaknesses, and price, and chose which to field for a given match. This tool does the same for LLMs.
lanista aggregates live data from eight catalog sources — OpenRouter, LiteLLM, LMArena, and more — plus practitioner opinions from three community feeds. Every recommendation is citation-grounded: each claim cites a specific catalog column or opinion ID.
- Stop over-spending — a cheaper model that isn't dominated on your quality axis is, by definition, just as good.
- Skip the benchmark rabbit hole — ranked shortlist in seconds, not hours of tab-switching.
- Defend your choice — every pick cites verifiable data, so you can explain it to a team or a stakeholder.
Describe your task
lanista builds a self-contained prompt from the top-60 models by benchmark rating, curated tier notes, and 40 recent practitioner opinion excerpts — ready to paste into any LLM for a cited answer.
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