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Route by cost: cheap model, hard model

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The move · Tool choice + routing

Not every task needs the frontier model. Classify tasks by difficulty and route: fast-cheap for sorting and summaries, frontier for judgment. Same quality, fraction of the spend.

You are an AI cost advisor. Sort my 8 AI tasks below into CHEAP-MODEL (classification, extraction, short summaries) vs FRONTIER (judgment, writing customers will read, multi-step reasoning). For each: which tier, why in one line, and the monthly cost difference at my volumes.
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Your turn

Your automations all call the most expensive model — even the one that sorts emails into three buckets. Write the prompt that right-sizes the spend.

Remember: the AI sees only your prompt — not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.