Use a Cheap Model for the Router and a Powerful Model for the Worker: 5 Considerations for Model Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems
Author’s note: Using DeepSeek’s super-agent design as a starting point, this article breaks down how to assign models to routers and workers in a multi-agent system—and how cache-read tokens affect architecture costs. When building a multi-agent coding system, most people give the strongest model to the “commander” and cheaper models to the agents doing the…
