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When to Switch LLM Models: A Practical Guide to Re-Running Model Comparison in Production

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Trismik
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Key Takeaways​

  • There is no permanent “best LLM”—model selection must be revisited regularly as capabilities, pricing, and workloads evolve.
  • Five clear triggers signal when to switch LLM models: major new releases, rising costs, latency or UX degradation, expanding task types, and governance changes.
  • Continuous LLM model selection is an optimization loop—teams treating it as infrastructure strategy reduce costs and improve quality over time.
  • A repeatable comparison process requires stable baselines, side-by-side testing under identical conditions, and explicit trade-off evaluation.
  • Trismik's QuickCompare tool helps teams run and re-run LLM model comparison using rigorous testing on their own data, making periodic evaluation practical.