You routed 80% to cheaper models. Now measure whether it worked.
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Last week I argued the obvious part: most production LLM traffic — extraction, classification, short rewrites — rarely needs the frontier model, and routing it to cheaper models (Chinese open-weight models are typically 70%+ cheaper, often up to 90%+ on China models) turns a flat bill into a blende…
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You routed 80% to cheaper models. Now measure whether it worked.