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Auto Router: Opus level quality at up to 27% lower cost

calendar_today August 8, 2026 domain litellm

On a 21 task subset of Terminal-Bench 2.0, an auto router matched Claude Opus-5 solve rate at 27% lower cost. Adding the last 3 user messages as classifier context raised relative quality 14% but cost 44% more; adding assistant replies made both worse.

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