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Cut your AI cost IN HALF (EASY) — Key Takeaways

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Cut your AI cost IN HALF (EASY)

Matthew Berman19mJul 7, 2026

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Route planning tasks to frontier models (Fable) and code execution to cheaper models (GPT-4.5/Composer 2.5) to cut AI costs ~68% without sacrificing output quality.

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  1. 1mModel Routing: The Core Concept
  2. 2mPlanning vs. Execution Workflow
  3. 7mCost Math: 68% Savings Demonstrated
  4. 10mManual Implementation: Copy-Paste Between Claude and Codex
  5. 13mAutomated Routing: Third-Party Harnesses and Agent Orchestration
  6. 16mChoosing Models and Thinking Levels for Non-Coding Work
  7. 18mEnterprise Scale: Coinbase as a Real-World Example

“While their total token usage continues to increase, the actual bars right here are decreasing. This is their total cost decreasing or staying flat.”

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