Routing and Compaction to Cut AI Costs
Nice-Dragonfly-4823 · reddit · 2026-07-13
This article explores reducing AI usage costs, focusing not merely on "calling models less" but on minimizing waste through smarter routing and compaction.
Actionable strategies provided by the author include:
- Building an LLM gateway
- Using a prompt classifier to categorize requests
- Establishing a routing table based on prompt type and complexity
- Integrating a compaction mechanism within agents to compress context before continuing execution
The piece highlights immediately deployable strategies aimed at lowering costs without requiring major rewrites to the underlying agent architecture.
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