My LLM chat API's routing tiers taught me that 'auto' is a pricing decision, not a quality decision
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I run an OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint that fronts 50+ models. The original design was simple: one model name, one price, pass-through. Then my own agents started burning through tokens on trivial classification calls, and I noticed something worse — I was paying frontier-model rates for "is this…
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- 2026-10-15 15:03 · DEV Community — AI
My LLM chat API's routing tiers taught me that 'auto' is a pricing decision, not a quality decision