For daily things I just use the free Gemini tier, which I think is currently Gemini 2.5 Flash. The type if you mean gemini vs gpt vs deepseek and Llama them still matters when you get to intensive things but yes for most people it is not a concern. If I were to use a model specific for coding then I would prefer to use Gemini 3 or GPT 5 , or if you are using models for iterative tasks but they are generic say like summarizing text then it can matter less how smart the model is. More so the model matters when you are doing local work with something like N8N , then you can use a smaller model with a small context window for simple tasks and use the bigger models with large context for producing things.