SmartModelRouter sends the simple work to small, inexpensive models and the hard work to the frontier, then proves the cheap answer was good enough. Super good enough engineering.
Book a demoThe superstition
Most enterprise AI traffic is shallow: classification, extraction, short summaries, routing. A small model handles it correctly. Sending all of it to a frontier model is a reflex, and you pay for the reflex on every request.
How it works
Point your existing OpenAI-compatible client at SmartModelRouter. Change one line, the base URL. No rewrite.
Each request is sized in real time. Shallow work goes to a small model. Genuinely hard work goes to the frontier.
An evaluation step checks the cheap answer against the task. You never get a dumber answer, you stop overpaying for the easy ones.
The proof
Real routing over a synthetic enterprise workload. The projection is your measured blended savings rate applied to your own spend.
Projected annual savings
$150,000
$12,500 per month
A measured blended savings rate of 25%, applied to an assumed $50K per month of frontier API spend. The rate comes from a real routing run, the spend is yours to set.
The promise
Cheap is not the goal. Sufficient is. SmartModelRouter routes down only when a small model provably clears the bar.
Every saving is shown next to its quality score. When the cheap answer is weak, the request escalates to the frontier.
See it on your own traffic
Tell us where your AI spend goes. We will show you what SmartModelRouter would have saved.