2+ free LLM prompts with small context windows can outperform 1 paid LLM prompt with large context window.
Performance as in, successful results achieved, not total latency between first prompt and final result.
But since free LLM prompts can run indefinitely where-as paid LLM prompts require more oversight and only run intermittently, using free LLMs may also perform faster than paid LLMs when looking at results in terms of days at a time.
2+ free LLM prompts with small context windows can outperform 1 paid LLM prompt with large context window.
Performance as in, successful results achieved, not total latency between first prompt and final result.
But since free LLM prompts can run indefinitely where-as paid LLM prompts require more oversight and only run intermittently, using free LLMs may also perform faster than paid LLMs when looking at results in terms of days at a time.