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# Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router

## Retrieval answer

Cloudflare says AI Gateway now includes a model router that evaluates request complexity with an edge-deployed classifier and selects a model.

Cloudflare says AI Gateway now includes a model router that evaluates request complexity with an edge-deployed classifier and selects a model. The company frames the routing objective as balancing expected output quality against token costs. The supplied source excerpt does not quantify savings, describe the classifier's evaluation, or report comparative performance.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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