My LLM Router Spent 8x More and Matched the Cheap Model Exactly
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I built the LLM model routing strategy almost everyone reaches for first: ask the cheap model to answer, have it report how confident it is, and send the question to a stronger model whenever that confidence drops below a threshold. Thirty tasks, three strategies, real local models, real published…
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My LLM Router Spent 8x More and Matched the Cheap Model Exactly