Routing agent decisions to Jev cuts a monthly bill by 91%
Of 1,100 calls, 1,003 were decisions, so the builder moved them to Jev and sent low-confidence cases to Kimi K3, dropping the monthly cost from $84.50 to $7.30.
an AI agent's bill went from $84.50 to $7.30 a month, and the writing model never changed the builder logged every call it made for a week. ~1,100 calls: → 1,003 were decisions: "which step next", "is this source useful", "is the draft ready" → 97 were actual writing he was paying writing prices for one-word answers so he split the job: → Jev takes the decisions. $0.042 per 1M input, output free → anything under 0.85 confidence goes to Kimi K3 to think it through → nothing gets published under 0.95. that one comes to him 10 decisions per run: $0.42 before. $0.0017 after your agent doesn't need a smarter brain. it needs to stop asking it yes/no questions the full build, 12 steps with code, in the article below ↓
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