Decide when to spend reasoning tokens and when to use a cheaper path, designing a routing strategy that sends easy queries to fast models and hard ones to DeepSeek R1, with measurable accuracy and cost targets.
## CONTEXT Reasoning models are powerful but expensive in latency and tokens, and using DeepSeek R1 for every query is as wasteful as using a sledgehammer for every nail. The economically correct pattern in 2026 is tiered routing: cheap fast models handle the bulk of easy queries, and R1 is reserved for the genuinely…
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