Model Routing 101: Sending Easy Prompts to Cheap Models Without Hurting Quality
TL;DR Model routing directs incoming queries to the most cost-effective language model capable of completing the task, reducing inference spend by 40% to 85%. Frontier models cost 10 to 20 times more than lightweight alternatives, yet production traffic distributions show that 60% to 80% of routine…
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- 2026-10-15 09:27 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Model Routing 101: Sending Easy Prompts to Cheap Models Without Hurting Quality