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How I Cut My LLM API Bill by 80% With a Simple Router
No fancy infrastructure. Just a 50-line Python function that picks the right model for the right query.
Last month my LLM API bill hit $340. This month: $67.
Same traffic. Same product. The only change was adding a simple router that stops sending every request to Claude Sonnet when GPT-4o mini can handle it just as well.
Here's exactly how it works.
The Problem
When you prototype, you pick one model and hardcode it everywhere. Usually something capable like GPT-4o or Claude Sonnet,...
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