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Model Routing Recipes: Practical Config Patterns to Cut AI Spend

A code-heavy field guide to model routing. Real, runnable-style configs for tiering tasks by complexity, routing simple work to open-weights, reserving frontier models for hard reasoning, building failover chains, and keeping prompt caches warm with OpenRouter, LiteLLM, and Factory Router.

June 17, 2026•11 min read

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OpenRouter Fusion Makes Model Panels Real. Use Them Like Escalation, Not Autopilot

OpenRouter Fusion turns multi-model panels into an API feature. The useful lesson is not to run every prompt through more models. It is to define when a task deserves an expensive second opinion.

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Model Routing Recipes: Practical Config Patterns to Cut AI Spend

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Model Routing Recipes: Practical Config Patterns to Cut AI Spend

OpenRouter Fusion Makes Model Panels Real. Use Them Like Escalation, Not Autopilot

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