CLAIM-2026-08-16-07
Routing cut total cost by 74% against a frontier-only baseline — $0.026 per completed task against $0.092 for Claude Opus 4.8 alone.
Why it matters
The comparator is what makes it a number. 74% against frontier-only is the whole commercial case for putting a router in the path.
Sources
- langchain2026how
- nvidiatechn2026route