Blog – Westtree

Jul 30, 2026 Blog

How to Cut Your LLM Costs by 60% with Model Routing

Most teams overpay for AI by routing every request to GPT-4. Smart model routing can cut costs by 60% — here is the playbook.

We ran 200+ prompts across coding, reasoning, and creative tasks. Here is which model wins on each axis.

Direct-to-provider API access is fading. Routing platforms like Westtree now power 40% of AI app backends.