IQ Routing
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 launched on August 27, 2026 with 100 votes, #385 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
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.
Choose models for your workload and budget. IQ Routing drops in front of chatbots, RAG pipelines, agent loops, and finance workloads. What you save depends on your default model and workload.
IQ Routing drops in front of chatbots, RAG pipelines, agent loops, and finance workloads. What you save depends on your default model and workload. Free needs no card. Your providers bill model usage separately. Any OpenAI- or Anthropic-shaped endpoint drops in behind one base URL. See the full lineup of supported providers on our integrations page. 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. Historical worked example using the model lineup…from iq-routing.com
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