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LLM Request Routing

The practice of directing model calls to different LLMs by cost, latency or capability, either per request or per sub-task, usually through a proxy or gateway layer.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Routing by token purpose pays only once a gateway splits the call

A dev.to post credits a roughly 42x drop in token use on a code-editing workload to deleting an agent's reread loop. The gateway it recommends can only route whole calls, and the two levers are different sizes.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence20
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+55
Incentives85
Confidence45