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One cheap-model router on a $5 VPS: use this week's price drops without rewriting your app

Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links; I may earn a commission at no cost to you. TL;DR: Prices moved a lot this week (Nov 2-6, 2026). Instead of hard-coding one model, put a tiny OpenAI-compatible router in front of your app, send easy requests to a cheap model and hard ones to a frontier…

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  1. 2026-11-07 14:40 · DEV Community — AI
    One cheap-model router on a $5 VPS: use this week's price drops without rewriting your app

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