Routing beat three other agent orchestration patterns in a demo benchmark
mastra_ai · reddit · 2026-07-24
A team benchmarked four agent orchestration patterns from Anthropic’s agents research on the same task set and found routing was both fastest and cheapest.
- Single-agent baseline: 6.4s
- Prompt chain (draft → critique → edit): 10.2s
- Three analyst tasks in parallel: 13s
- Routing: 3.2s
The post also notes that, in Anthropic’s own findings, a multi-agent setup beat a single agent by 90.2% while using about 15× more tokens. In their reading, token usage explained roughly 80% of the performance difference.
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