Jordan Sitter rebuild — model comparison

Every build below was made from the same brief, generated from measurements of jordansitter.com and byte-identical across models. Each then iterated against the same automated gate until it passed, stalled, or hit the round cap.

Cost and time are the model's own. Interventions count every retry, transport failure, reasoning cap and truncation — a combination needing a human twice per site is not viable at any price, so it is never folded into the cost.

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Cost
$0.2791
Model time
513s
Gate
home 25/5 · jobs 16/12
Interventions
0
Outcome
CAPPED / CAPPED

Kimi K3

Cost
$1.4505
Model time
760s
Gate
home 24/9 · jobs 15/13
Interventions
7
Outcome
CAPPED / STALLED

Qwen 3.8 Max

Cost
$1.4874
Model time
4198s
Gate
home 24/9 · jobs 16/12
Interventions
11
Outcome
CAPPED / STALLED

Grok 4.6

Cost
$1.6313
Model time
2578s
Gate
home 25/4 · jobs 15/10
Interventions
1
Outcome
CAPPED / STALLED