--- title: Cursor, Ramp, and Meta are all building model routers —... description: Model routing — automatically directing AI requests to the most cost-appropriate model — is becoming a product category in its own right. Cursor launched... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-ramp-and-meta-are-all-building-model-routers-but-two-have-major-model-ambitions-themselve-rizily2nn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cursor, Ramp, and Meta are all building model routers — but two have major model ambitions themselves | daily.dev og:description: Model routing — automatically directing AI requests to the most cost-appropriate model — is becoming a product category in its own right. Cursor launched... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-ramp-and-meta-are-all-building-model-routers-but-two-have-major-model-ambitions-themselve-rizily2nn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/riZIlY2NN.png og:image:alt: Cursor, Ramp, and Meta are all building model routers — but two have major model ambitions themselves og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cursor, Ramp, and Meta are all building model routers — but two have major model ambitions themselves **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Model routing — automatically directing AI requests to the most cost-appropriate model — is becoming a product category in its own right. Cursor launched Cursor Router, which classifies each coding request by difficulty and routes it to the best-fit model, claiming 30-50% cost savings over always using a frontier model. The move fits Cursor's broader strategy of owning more of its AI stack, including its in-house Composer 2.5 and the jointly released Grok 4.5. Ramp simultaneously opened its internal model router to the public, reporting 30% LLM cost reductions. Meta is reportedly building Switchboard, an internal routing product from its AAI Labs incubator, aimed at cutting AI agent costs and potentially steering traffic toward Meta's own models. OpenRouter and Sakana AI's Fugu represent earlier routing approaches, though critics argue domain-specific routers like Cursor's outperform general-purpose ones. Microsoft's acknowledgment that binding Copilot to OpenAI alone was a mistake signals that multi-model flexibility has gone mainstream. An open question remains whether routing logic should be open-source rather than locked inside vendor products. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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