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Token spend isn't going down. You need more than naive routing to manage it

calendar_today June 25, 2026 domain ai21-labs

AI21 argues that LLM token spend keeps climbing and that naive model routing alone cannot control it. The post lays out why managing cost requires deeper strategies beyond simply routing requests to cheaper models.

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