Why Model Routing Backfires and How to Build Agents That Don’t Burn Your Budget
CYBERSECURITY FEATURED ANALYSIS

Why Model Routing Backfires and How to Build Agents That Don’t Burn Your Budget

BY

zoer

SOURCE

From the Frog's mouth - JFrog Blog

DATE

READ

1 min read

Model routing promises to cut your AI agent spend by offloading routine tasks to cheaper models like Claude Haiku while reserving frontier models like Claude Sonnet for complex reasoning. In the right configuration, …

Model routing promises to cut your AI agent spend by offloading routine tasks to cheaper models like Claude Haiku while reserving frontier models like Claude Sonnet for complex reasoning. In the right configuration, routing strategies can reduce inference costs by 40–85%. But if you implement routing incorrectly in a multi-turn agent, you can end up