OpenRouter publishes routing guide on confidence-threshold tiers

On October 1, 2026, OpenRouter published a guide on routing requests to stronger models by confidence threshold. The method: have the model return a confidence score from 0 to 1 through structured outputs, keep high-scoring requests on the cheap model, and escalate low-scoring ones to a stronger model. As of this report, that is the only public development on the matter.

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