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Jul 2026
Beyond Price and Benchmark: A Cost–Methodology–Fit Framework for Selecting AI Developer Tools, with a Proposed Evaluation Protocol
Findings indicate the market has bifurcated by billing model, that capability is increasingly a model-level rather than tool-level property, and that hybrid tool stacks are a rational response to fit-contingency.
Sarthak Patel, Jinit Patel
· International Journal of Com... · 0 citations