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AI · August 27, 2026

IQ Routing

Trajectory-aware LLM routing that cuts agent cost

What it does

IQ Routing is a drop-in gateway. We classify each request, serve from cache, and route to the cheapest model that clears the quality bar and completes the task. The insight others miss: an agent is a trajectory, not a stream of independent calls. We route each step based on where it sits in the run: a cheap model on boilerplate, the strongest model on what matters.

Route every LLM call to the cheapest model that holds quality. Chatbots, RAG, agent loops, and finance. Cut spend 40 to 80 percent, measured on our own traffic, live in thirty seconds.

IQ Routing drops in front of chatbots, RAG pipelines, agent loops, and finance workloads. Cut spend 40 to 80 percent, measured on our own traffic, live in thirty seconds. Any OpenAI- or Anthropic-shaped endpoint drops in behind one base URL. Kimi and GLM are next on the roadmap. Pin one frontier model on classification, retrieval, tool calls, and cleanup alike and you pay reasoning rates for work a cheap model would nail. Then the invoice lands as one line, shipping outruns anything finance can categorise, the cost report is a guess, and the audit trail is a Slack thread. The Before trace pins every step on the same top-tier reasoning model, which totals $1.84. The After trace lets the…from iq-routing.com

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