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Cutting agent costs with model routing and step budgets

Simple levers that took our average run from 48 credits to 11.

Route by step difficulty

Planning a flight needs a strong model; clicking “submit” does not. Run Pilots routes cheap, deterministic steps to fast models and reserves premium models for planning and recovery.

Budgets that stop runaway loops

Every run has a step cap and a credit cap. Whichever hits first stops the run with a clear reason instead of burning your month in an hour. We also cap tool output sizes before they reach the model.

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