---
id: ai-omniroute-routing
area: ai
level: 3
title: "Artefact — Model routing and cost control"
claim: "Every model call is classified first and sent to the cheapest capable provider — six providers behind one gateway with no direct SDK calls anywhere in the estate."
confidence: running
period: "2020–"
tech: [OmniRoute, JEV, DeepSeek, MiniMax, OpenRouter, Gemini, OpenAI]
metrics: [{label: "providers in rotation", value: 6}, {label: "gateways", value: 1}]
artefacts: []
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [ai, routing, cost, artefact]
---

# Artefact — Model routing and cost control

**Status: stub.** The routing decision path and a redacted cost table land in Phase 7. No keys or account identifiers are ever published.

## What the artefact is

The decision path: request arrives, a prompt-analysis step classifies it, the gateway selects a provider and model, and the response returns with its cost recorded. Plus the comparison that demoted local inference for heavy flows — local Ollama measured slower and more expensive under the available hardware than partitioned remote calls.

## What it proves

Cost control implemented as routing and measurement rather than as a monthly promise, and a single chokepoint where provider access can be audited.

## When it is delivered

Phase 7. The evidence for the provider list and the local-versus-remote decision is in the evidence notes, section 2 and section 4.