Commercial LLM routers fail to beat carefully chosen random routing

Across six commercial routers and 14 evaluation settings, none surpassed matched-cost random selection between two well-chosen models.

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Sam Wang · Julia White · Sahibzada Allahyar · Dhruv Atreja · Urchade Zaratiana · Kelton Zhang

Fastino Labs

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Wang et al.

The authors evaluated six commercial LLM routers across 14 settings on a diverse benchmark covering eight task categories.

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From Fastino Labs · Part of Agent Harness Optimization, now 101 papers

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Dynamic LLM routers fail to outperform random routing between two well-chosen models at matched cost.

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