LLM INFERENCE ECONOMICS
AI Token Cost & Multi-Model Routing Calculator
Sending 100% of LLM prompts to flagship models like GPT-4o or Claude Sonnet is an engineering antipattern. Calculate how much your engineering team saves with a multi-model router.
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[MULTI-MODEL ROUTING ARCHITECTURE]:
Routes 85% lightweight extraction, data cleaning, and classification calls to ultra-low cost Gemini 3.8 Flash ($0.075/1M), reserving 15% complex synthesis for GPT-4o ($2.50/1M).
MONTHLY COST COMPARISON 30 DAYS INFERENCE
100% Pure GPT-4o: $9,000 / mo
100% Pure Claude 3.5 Sonnet: $12,600 / mo
Smart Multi-Model Router: $1,594 / mo
MONTHLY SAVINGS WITH ROUTER: $7,406 / mo
Annual infrastructure savings: $88,872/yr with < 15ms routing classification overhead.