Providers, models, and routing
Choose models by task, quality, and cost.
An API provider serves one or more AI models. Modeus breaks a task into steps and selects an approved provider and model for each step instead of sending the whole task to one model.
Evidence snapshotObserved 29 July 2026Artificial Analysis ↗
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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Intelligence
A quality signal for complex reasoning · higher is better
Signal leaderClaude Opus 5 (max)61 AA Index
How to read this snapshot
Intelligence uses the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Output speed is generated tokens per second after response begins. Cost per task is the weighted average cost of an Intelligence Index task. Endpoint behavior and prices change.
Routing efficiency is a simple Modeus planning aid: Intelligence Index points divided by weighted task cost. It is not a universal quality score and should not replace workload-specific evaluation.
Routing, not ranking
A leaderboard
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The strongest route is determined by the work: error cost, throughput, modality, privacy, tools, and the proof required at the end.
Ambiguous reasoning
Spend deeper capacity on decisions where assumptions, trade-offs, and error cost dominate.
High-throughput work
Use faster capacity for extraction, transformation, classification, and repeated drafts.
Mixed-media work
Route images, audio, documents, code, and structured output to models and tools that can inspect them directly.
Governed environments
Respect provider approval, regional policy, retention limits, and open-weight or controlled deployment requirements.
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The operating stack
A model is one layer.
Completion needs four.
Modeus separates infrastructure, intelligence, capability, and orchestration so each can be selected and governed deliberately.
Providers operate endpoints and define availability, pricing, privacy, regional access, and commercial terms.
Model families bring different quality, latency, context, modality, tool-use, and cost characteristics.
Browser, terminal, files, search, office, media, API, and connected-system tools let intelligence inspect and act.
Modeus frames the outcome, scopes context, assigns capacity, coordinates tools and approvals, and verifies the handoff.
Data provenance
Specific enough to use.
Transparent enough to challenge.
This is a Modeus presentation of a public Artificial Analysis snapshot observed on 29 July 2026. Metrics, providers, endpoints, and evaluation methods change; confirm the current source before production routing.
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