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Together AI's 18 August 2026 DeepSWE study priced a DeepSeek V4 Pro rollout at $0.24 and GPT-5.6 Sol at $8.37. Three days later OpenAI cut Sol to $4 and $20. The routing advice rests on both numbers.
Manu Shukla 
Poolside's 118B open-weight coding model is 100x cheaper on input than Claude Fable 5 and scores 70.2% to Fable's 88% on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Here is the routing decision that follows from those two numbers.
Manu Shukla 
In 2026, 98% of FinOps teams manage AI spend, and LLM prices span more than 140x from budget to frontier. An AI gateway with cost-aware routing and caching cuts that bill 40-70% without downgrading quality. How eCorpIT
Manu Shukla 
On July 22, 2026 Cursor launched Router, a request-level classifier that sends each coding request to the best model. In Cursor's own tests it cut costs 30-60% versus Opus 4.8. Here are the numbers and the trade-offs.
Manu Shukla 
Three frontier models shipped within ten days of each other in mid-2026, at list prices that now differ by up to 20x. The published price is not what you pay. Here is how to route workloads on evidence instead of vendor loyalty.
Manu Shukla 
At WWDC 2026 Apple detailed a system orchestrator that decides what runs on-device, what goes to Private Cloud Compute, and what reaches a cloud model. How the routing works, for engineers.
Manu Shukla 