--- title: Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case | daily.dev description: A developer conducted a personal evaluation of 11 LLMs using 130 real prompts from their bash history, covering programming, sysadmin, technical explanations,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/evaluating-llms-for-my-personal-use-case-4iopyant3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case | daily.dev og:description: A developer conducted a personal evaluation of 11 LLMs using 130 real prompts from their bash history, covering programming, sysadmin, technical explanations,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/evaluating-llms-for-my-personal-use-case-4iopyant3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4iOPyAnT3.png og:image:alt: Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 11 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer conducted a personal evaluation of 11 LLMs using 130 real prompts from their bash history, covering programming, sysadmin, technical explanations, and general knowledge tasks. The evaluation found that open models like DeepSeek and Qwen3 often outperformed expensive closed models like Claude Sonnet and Gemini Pro in terms of accuracy, cost, and speed. Key findings include that reasoning models rarely help for simple tasks, Gemini Flash is exceptionally fast, and closed models are overpriced. The author now uses multiple models simultaneously via tmux scripts for different use cases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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