I think with gpt-5-mini and now Haiku 4.5, I’d phrase the question the other way around: what do you need the big models for anymore? We use the smaller models

I think with gpt-5-mini and now Haiku 4.5, I’d phrase the question the other way around: what do you need the big models for anymore? We use the smaller models for everything that’s not internal high complexity tasks like coding. Although they would do a good enough of a job there as well, we happily pay the uncharge to get something a little better here. Anything user facing or when building workflow functionalities like extracting, converting, translating, merging, evaluating, all of these are mini and nano cases at our company.