Automatically route LLM requests to cheaper models to cut API costs

Automatically route LLM requests to cheaper models to cut API costs targets a $6.0B = 1,000,000 businesses × $6K average annual LLM/API spend for apps and internal tooling total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 40% YoY (industry reports and provider disclosures show rapid growth in LLM API consumption).

Key trends driving demand: Model heterogeneity — many performant, lower-cost open-source and alternative provider models are now available, enabling meaningful substitution opportunities.; Visible AI spend — engineering and finance teams are tracking AI API spend as a separate line item, creating demand for cost management tools.; Shift to multi-provider architectures — companies increasingly prefer provider-agnostic platforms to avoid lock-in and to optimize for cost/performance.; Observability for prompts — teams demand telemetry about model performance per prompt, which enables automated routing decisions..