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Prompt complexity classifier to route requests between cheap and frontier LLMs

Developers default to expensive frontier models because they cannot tell which prompts are simple enough for cheaper models. A router that scores prompt complexity and dispatches to the cheapest adequate model would cut API costs and latency.

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The space is crowded at the infrastructure layer, with abundant routing and cost-optimization code, so a generic LLM router would be hard to differentiate; the active discussion volume does indicate real demand. A narrow, reliable prompt-complexity classifier that decides cheap-versus-frontier routing could still be worth entering, but only if validated against real task distributions rather than

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    60 days ago

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LLM routingprompt complexityAPI cost optimizationmodel selectionfrontier models

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