Multi-model routing beats Claude Opus 5 on 89 terminal-bench tasks at 65% lower cost

entelligenceai17 · reddit · 2026-07-30

A benchmark on 89 Terminal-Bench 2.1 tasks found that a routed, multi-model agent setup beat Claude Opus 5 while cutting cost by 65%. The write-up argues that agent systems may increasingly route different steps to different models instead of using one frontier model for everything.

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