Task-Tiered Large Language Model Routing: Using a 3-Layer Architecture to Determine Which Requests Are Worth Flagship Models
Author’s note: This article uses three dimensions—task difficulty, cost of errors, and context size—to explain how to route Large Language Models by task tier, reserving flagship models for requests that truly need them. Many teams’ first step in adopting Large Language Models is to send every request to the strongest flagship model available. That’s fine…