@omarsar0: Switching models mid-session is one of the fastest ways to inflate an agent bill. Every switch resets your prompt cache…
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An open-weight auto-routing model called @daridotdev is released for coding agents, offering cache-aware model switching to reduce costs by up to 70% while maintaining performance.
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Switching models mid-session is one of the fastest ways to inflate an agent bill.
Every switch resets your prompt cache, and a cheaper model can end up costing you more.
@daridotdev built their router to be cache-aware. It only switches when the move actually saves money, and it plugs into Claude Code, Codex, or whatever harness you already use.
The router itself is an open-weight SLM.
Avyay Varadarajan (@avyvar): Today, we’re releasing our open-weight, auto-routing model @daridotdev, built for coding agents.
We’re state-of-the-art on the Pareto Frontier, w/ 70% cost reduction + comparable coding performance to Fable.
Bring your own evals, choose your models, or use our defaults.
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