LangChain Tests NVIDIA Switchyard: 93% of Agent Calls Handled by 30B Model, Cutting Costs 70%
LangChain · x · 2026-08-12
LangChain integrated NVIDIA's open-source model router, Switchyard, into its Deep Agents evaluation suite, comprising 145 multi-step tasks involving tool use, retrieval, and long context.
Results: 93% of turns were successfully routed to a 30B model, while only 7% required Claude Opus 4.8. This routing strategy reduced total costs by 70% while retaining 90% of Opus's accuracy on the same tasks.
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