A gateway moves your request; it doesn't know which model is right. Routing on price and availability is solved — routing on answer qualityneeds a measured signal. This is ours: the best model per use-case from the latest benchmark, plus how the market's routing tools actually work.
The least expensive model that still clears the quality bar for each task, from the latest benchmark. Updated 7/6/2026, 7:52:39 PM.
openai/gpt-oss-120b
ping, preprocessing, compaction, short_responses
openai/gpt-oss-120b
tool_use, structured_output, agent_decisions
openai/gpt-oss-120b
long_generation, document_analysis, bulk_processing
openai/gpt-oss-120b
fallback, retry
Every general gateway routes on availability, price, latency, or your declared order — none on whether the answer is correct. That column is the gap our signal fills.
Read the “Quality-aware?” column: most gateways route on availability, price, latency, or order (No / Heuristic). A few route on quality — but via a proprietary, opaque model, or single-vendor(the provider’s own router, which can only ever pick its own models). Only a measured signal lets you see why a task routes where, across vendors, on your own tasks. Click any row for the full review.
Note the two kinds of quality. OpenRouter Fusion (June 2026) buys quality at inference time — fan a request out to a panel and let a judge fuse the answers, paying more compute per request. EyesInAI buys it at measurement time— benchmark first so you know the cheapest single model that passes, then route there. They stack: measure to pick the panel and the judge, fuse when a task is worth the spend, and route to one cheap model when it isn’t.
Pass-rate per task, cost per call, latency, and variance across repeated runs are the inputs a capability-aware router needs. We measure them so your routing decision is one you can defend with numbers — not a black box.
This isn't abstract. Routing without a measured quality signal is the documented way to cut the bill and quietly break the product— a quality loss several times the savings, paid in a cost center nobody's watching. The defense is per-task measurement and a downgrade gated on real traffic, which is exactly what we run.
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