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Provider Economics.
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Cost-Optimized LLM Routing: When to Use Claude, GPT, Grok, and Free Models
Decision tree across 25+ LLM providers. Real cost data. Why I run 200+ models at $2.48/agent/day, and how the free-fleet optimizer routes 80% of work to $0/month.
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Frontier Model Convergence: When #1 vs #2 Doesn't Matter Anymore
The top frontier models are now within 3-4 percentage points of each other on SWE-bench. When the gap is that small, model selection becomes a routing problem — not a vendor loyalty problem.
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Running 200+ Free Models in Production (And When to Pay)
Groq, Cerebras, Cloudflare Workers AI, OpenRouter. The escalation ladder I actually use, with cost data.