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A $500M accidental Claude bill and an open-weights model beating GPT-5.5 at one-sixth the cost point to the same conclusion: the margin is moving to the layer that decides when to use which model for what. Here is how routing and orchestration differ, and how to cut your model spend.

A complete, citation-backed Claude Code course with setup, prompting systems, MCP, CI, security, cost controls, and capstone workflows.

Automatic reuse of cached context for substantial cost reduction.

2.5x faster Opus at a higher token cost (research preview).

Five managed-agent providers, five pricing models, zero unified cost attribution. If you're running agents overnight, you need FinOps you don't have yet.