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Research with sources

What do you need to investigate and verify?

PrivacyNon-sensitive inputsDeploymentHosted service allowedScaleOccasional to moderate volumeLatencyInteractive, not real-timeBudgetBalanced quality and costReliabilityHuman review for consequential output
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3 candidates. No automatic winner.

These are dated starting points under the disclosed defaults. Evaluate these approaches against your workload.

Quality & reliability

Claude Opus 5

Inside: tool using agent

LifecyclecurrentVerified2026-08-27Evidence1 provider source + RS interpretationStatuscurrent

A capable hosted option for long, evidence-heavy synthesis with tools.

TradeoffStrong model capability does not replace source review and increases cost.

Why?
  • supports research
  • accepts text
  • fits quality-reliability
Go deeper

This approach joins the release claude-opus-5 to the deployment offer anthropic-claude-opus-5-api. The recommendation is dated RS interpretation, not a provider ranking.

Technical details

Modalities: text, image. Access: proprietary. Evidence class: rs-interpretation.

Evaluation plan

  1. Prepare five source packets.
  2. Audit every factual claim and citation.
  3. Score omissions uncertainty and cost.
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Speed & cost

Claude Sonnet 5

Inside: tool using agent

LifecyclecurrentVerified2026-08-27Evidence1 provider source + RS interpretationStatuscurrent

A faster hosted option for iterative research briefs.

TradeoffCompare difficult synthesis and source discipline against a quality-first model.

Why?
  • supports research
  • accepts text
  • fits speed-cost
Go deeper

This approach joins the release claude-sonnet-5 to the deployment offer anthropic-claude-sonnet-5-api. The recommendation is dated RS interpretation, not a provider ranking.

Technical details

Modalities: text, image. Access: proprietary. Evidence class: rs-interpretation.

Evaluation plan

  1. Prepare five source packets.
  2. Audit claims and citations.
  3. Record turnaround and review time.
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Control & locality

Llama 4 Scout

Inside: tool using agent

LifecyclecurrentVerified2026-08-27Evidence1 provider source + RS interpretationStatuscurrent

A self-hosted multimodal route for source packets that must stay local.

TradeoffYou own tool integration, retrieval quality, updates, and evaluation.

Why?
  • supports research
  • accepts text
  • fits control-locality
Go deeper

This approach joins the release meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Original to the deployment offer meta-llama-4-scout-local. The recommendation is dated RS interpretation, not a provider ranking.

Technical details

Modalities: text, image. Access: open-weight. Evidence class: rs-interpretation.

Evaluation plan

  1. Run the same source packets locally.
  2. Verify citations outside the model.
  3. Measure hardware throughput and maintenance.
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