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LLM Model Routing in Production: When to Send a Query to a Small Model
Route 60-80 percent of production traffic to small models with a quality fallback. The four routing architectures, the eval signals, and the failure modes.
Route 60-80 percent of production traffic to small models with a quality fallback. The four routing architectures, the eval signals, and the failure modes.
Frontier models do not win every task. A 2026 framework for when small and mid-sized models beat them on cost, latency, privacy, and accuracy.
Per-token prices look comparable. They are not. Three hidden cost drivers reshape the real LLM inference economics for enterprise buyers in 2026.
Deep analysis across the systems, strategies, and economics that shape modern technology.
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