Omnigent's Four-Line Defense Against Surprise LLM Bills: Routing, Budgets, Visibility
matei_zaharia · x · 2026-09-05
Yuan Tang details how Omnigent controls LLM costs at four points: smart routing that classifies messages as TRIVIAL or COMPLEX and blocks trivial tasks from expensive models like Opus and GPT-5; progressive budgets that warn before downgrading instead of interrupting; usage pages with per-harness and per-model token breakdowns plus custom pricing for self-hosted models; and safeguards like thrashing detection and scheduled-task limits. Rollout advice: visibility first, then routing, then budgets.
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