Why your agent bill explodes before the model even thinks — tiered routing and the cheap-check-first fix — Tiered Routing
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I once watched a single agent workflow burn through $340 in a single afternoon. Not because it failed—because it succeeded. Twenty-three steps, every one of them routed to a frontier model, and nineteen of those steps were formatting JSON, extracting dates, and classifying support tickets. I was pa…
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- 2026-10-01 14:55 · DEV Community — AI
Why your agent bill explodes before the model even thinks — tiered routing and the cheap-check-first fix — Tiered Routing