Choosing Models for Your SEO Workflow

RelevancyLens runs on OpenRouter, so you can use a different model for each task. Match cheaper, faster models to simple jobs and stronger models to reasoning-heavy ones to balance quality, speed, and cost.

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What Each Feature Costs in API Calls

Knowing the call pattern helps you pick where a stronger model is worth it

URL Analysis
1 chat
+ 6-21 embeddings
Intent Analysis
1 chat
Question generation
Gap Analysis
1 chat
Content gaps
Entity Analysis
1 chat
Missing entities
Chunk Rewriting
1 chat
+ 2 embeddings

Pick a Strategy, Then Tune Per Task

Three common ways to balance quality against cost

BUDGET

Fast & Cheap

High-volume audits where throughput matters more than nuance.

  • Small/'mini' chat models for every task
  • Lowest cost per page
  • Great for bulk site crawls
RECOMMENDED

Balanced

A capable default model, upgraded only where reasoning pays off.

  • Mid-tier chat model as the default
  • Stronger model for Gap & Entity analysis
  • Cost-efficient embeddings for scoring
QUALITY

Best Output

Client deliverables where quality of insight is the priority.

  • Frontier chat models for analysis & rewriting
  • Highest-quality embeddings
  • Higher cost per page

Recommended defaults — best quality at the lowest cost

RelevancyLens ships with an advanced open-weight model so you get near-frontier quality for roughly a tenth of GPT-4o's price. Override any task in Admin → Models.

RoleDefault modelWhy
All chat tasks deepseek/deepseek-chat DeepSeek V3 · open weight GPT-4-class reasoning & JSON output; ~10× cheaper than GPT-4o
Embeddings openai/text-embedding-3-small Already ~$0.02 / 1M tokens; scoring is calibrated to it

Strong open-weight alternatives (also cheap):

meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324 (pinned)

Per-Task Guidance

Each task can use its own model — set your own under Model Preferences

Task Type What it does Model tip
Primary Topic Discovery chat Finds the page's core topic Fast model is fine
Intent Analysis chat Generates likely user questions Mid-tier model
Gap Analysis chat Finds missing but relevant topics Stronger model helps
Entity Analysis chat Existing + high-value missing entities Stronger model helps
Chunk Rewriting chat Rewrites content for relevance Quality model for client work
Metadata Improvement chat Improves title / description / H1 Mid-tier model
Embeddings / Relevancy embedding Scores chunk relevancy Cost-efficient embeddings

How to Set Your Models

An administrator chooses the model for each task from the admin dashboard. Changes apply to everyone using the app — no redeploy needed.

Add your OpenRouter key
Open Admin → Models
Pick a model per task
Save & analyze

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