Sol/Astra and Claude Code routers: live routing and cost
Routing
Requests routed to the expensive model
18.4%
19.0%
Turns that touch it at all
25.1%
16.4%
Turns that start on it
11.7%
10.6%
Turns entirely on it
9.7%
8.1%
Turns that escalate to it mid-turn
13.4%
5.8%
Turns that de-escalate mid-turn
9.7%
5.6%
Average stay on it
6.3 requests (median 5)
6.9 requests (median 4)
Requests between model changes (avg)
20
16
Output tokens between model changes (avg)
~8K
~13K
Cost
Net saving vs. all-expensive-model
55%
24%