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I put my cost router on a neutral benchmark. It ranked near the bottom, and that's the interesting part

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A few weeks back I repriced three months of my own Claude Code usage. Real traffic, not a demo: 39.5 billion tokens across 139,835 requests. At API rates that's about $30,000, and 91% of it went to Opus because that's what the default reaches for. Route the fraction a smaller model handles as well,…

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  1. 2026-08-26 13:37 · DEV Community — AI
    I put my cost router on a neutral benchmark. It ranked near the bottom, and that's the interesting part

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