A growing trend of intelligent AI model routing is emerging, driven by the 10-20x cost difference between cheap and frontier models. Several vendors now offer smart routing solutions including Factory Router (20-25% savings), Not Diamond (~30% savings), Augment Code's Prism, Morph's Model Router, and Weave Router. AI gateways with built-in routing include OpenRouter, Kilo Gateway, Requestly.ai, LiteLLM, and Envoy AI Gateway. Cursor and GitHub Copilot also offer auto model selection, though with limitations. Enterprise demand is high, with open models reportedly sufficient for ~60% of coding-related token spend. Intelligent routing is expected to become standard across all AI vendors.
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