Switching Providers in Coding Agents Balloons Costs by Losing Context Cache
blelbach · x · 2026-07-24
Kevin Gray points out that input tokens dominate costs in coding agents. He advises against using routers like OpenRouter, as switching providers causes a loss of context caching, drastically increasing inference costs. He recommends using cheap and fast models like Grok, Gemini, or Kimi directly.
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