Your coding agent fires a lot of routine requests that do not need your most expensive model. Smart routing reads each request, judges how demanding it is, and serves the best allowed model for it — so easy work runs on a lighter, cheaper model and your top model is saved for the hard parts. One switch, no tuning.
You stay in control of which models your team may use. Clawgate picks the best fit for each request from that list.
Pick the models your team may use, from a strong flagship down to lighter, cheaper options. Leave the forced model off, then flip on smart routing.
It reads each request and judges how demanding it is — a quick file lookup versus a tricky bug fix — then matches it to the best allowed model for that level of work.
Routine work runs on a lighter, cheaper model. Hard work still gets your strongest model. Nothing changes for your developers.
There is nothing to tune. Clawgate judges each request and balances accuracy against cost for you, so you get the savings without setting a single dial.
Coding agents send a steady stream of small, routine requests: quick edits, file lookups, short questions. Running all of that on your most expensive model is money left on the table. Smart routing sends the easy requests to a lighter model at a fraction of the price, and keeps your top model for the parts that truly need it.
What a batch of requests costs you
Every request is billed at your top model's rate, even the routine ones.
Hard requests keep your top model. Routine requests run on a lighter model at a fraction of the cost.
Illustrative. Actual savings depend on your model mix and how much of your work is routine. The more routine traffic you have, the more you save.
Turn smart routing on for a team or a project and you are done. There are no weights to set and no formulas to learn.
Routing only ever picks from the models you allow. It never reaches for something you did not approve.
Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode keep working exactly as before. The savings happen quietly behind the scenes.
Sizing up a request uses a small, fast model call. It is passed through at cost — never marked up — and shows on your dashboard as its own line, so you always see exactly what routing costs against what it saves.
Smart routing is one of the ways Clawgate lowers your bill. It is more than a usage meter: it controls spend, cuts token usage, and flags abuse, all from one gateway.
Turn on smart routing and stop overpaying for routine work.
