Cost Control: Model Routing and Effort Tiers

Route work to the cheapest model that can do it and match reasoning effort to task difficulty - with quality guardrails.

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Inputs

Step 1

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Step 2

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Step 3

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Step 4

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Final output

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Step 1 · Find where the money actually goes before moving anything.

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Step 2 · One table, consulted by every call.

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Step 3 · Cheap first, strong on evidence of need.

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Step 4 · The eval is what makes cost optimization safe.

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Route work to the cheapest model that can do it and match reasoning effort to task difficulty - with quality guardrails.

•Recurring tasks you currently copy-paste between tools.
•When a single prompt isn't enough — you need a chain where output(n) feeds prompt(n+1).
•Fork and adapt if your inputs differ materially from the author's use case.

Claude Sonnet 4.6