TL;DR: For a junior developer moderating messy logistics catalog descriptions, start with GPT-4o-mini through chat completions and a strict json_schema . It is the quickest path to a predictable result without taking on GPU operations. Choose self-hosted Llama 3 8B when infrastructure control is a product requirement. Choose Amazon Bedrock when the team already wants a managed AWS model layer.

The decision is about quality per unit of waiting time, not a spreadsheet of token prices. A catalog record that arrives quickly but gets the category wrong still needs human review. A very careful classifier that blocks an import queue for minutes has a different cost: delayed inventory and a support ticket.…