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We measured a week of inference. Routing by task difficulty cuts our cost per call roughly 48x — and flips which users are profitable.

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We did the thing everyone building on LLMs does. We defaulted to a strong frontier model, because the demo has to be good and nobody gets fired for picking the strongest model. Then we measured a week of production traffic, and the numbers were embarrassing enough to write down. One frontier model…

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  1. 2026-08-26 23:20 · DEV Community — AI
    We measured a week of inference. Routing by task difficulty cuts our cost per call roughly 48x — and flips which users are profitable.

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