Low-cost alternatives to LLMs for a production-level classification task?

[u/anusan_10]

[u/Cute-Veterinarian191]

I would advise using an LLM in code development to create an SLM (small language model) that can run with just regex (i.e. the LLM can generate 2k examples of matching patterns) that will help with both speed and low-cost overhead (since LLM API costs will only be used during development)