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  1. argrouter-0.1.0a1/.env.example +9 -0
  2. argrouter-0.1.0a1/.github/workflows/ci.yml +21 -0
  3. argrouter-0.1.0a1/.github/workflows/release.yml +20 -0
  4. argrouter-0.1.0a1/.gitignore +20 -0
  5. argrouter-0.1.0a1/CONTRIBUTING.md +45 -0
  6. argrouter-0.1.0a1/LICENSE +202 -0
  7. argrouter-0.1.0a1/PKG-INFO +249 -0
  8. argrouter-0.1.0a1/PRE-REGISTRATION.md +116 -0
  9. argrouter-0.1.0a1/README.md +206 -0
  10. argrouter-0.1.0a1/SECURITY.md +29 -0
  11. argrouter-0.1.0a1/bench/provider_bench.py +315 -0
  12. argrouter-0.1.0a1/bench/results/README.md +46 -0
  13. argrouter-0.1.0a1/bench/results/provider_bench_20261006-004828.endpoints.json +1 -0
  14. argrouter-0.1.0a1/bench/results/provider_bench_20261006-004828.errors.jsonl +6 -0
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  16. argrouter-0.1.0a1/bench/results/provider_bench_20261006-004828.md +58 -0
  17. argrouter-0.1.0a1/bench/results/provider_bench_20261006-010257.endpoints.json +1 -0
  18. argrouter-0.1.0a1/bench/results/provider_bench_20261006-010257.errors.jsonl +1 -0
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  20. argrouter-0.1.0a1/bench/results/provider_bench_20261006-010257.md +58 -0
  21. argrouter-0.1.0a1/bench/verify_costs.py +98 -0
  22. argrouter-0.1.0a1/pyproject.toml +98 -0
  23. argrouter-0.1.0a1/scripts/build_snapshot.py +166 -0
  24. argrouter-0.1.0a1/src/argrouter/__init__.py +47 -0
  25. argrouter-0.1.0a1/src/argrouter/__main__.py +13 -0
  26. argrouter-0.1.0a1/src/argrouter/catalog/__init__.py +1 -0
  27. argrouter-0.1.0a1/src/argrouter/catalog/prices.json +6093 -0
  28. argrouter-0.1.0a1/src/argrouter/catalog/pricing.py +261 -0
  29. argrouter-0.1.0a1/src/argrouter/forecast.py +54 -0
  30. argrouter-0.1.0a1/src/argrouter/providers.py +230 -0
  31. argrouter-0.1.0a1/src/argrouter/py.typed +0 -0
  32. argrouter-0.1.0a1/src/argrouter/router.py +130 -0
  33. argrouter-0.1.0a1/tests/test_catalog.py +194 -0
  34. argrouter-0.1.0a1/tests/test_forecast.py +55 -0
  35. argrouter-0.1.0a1/tests/test_pricing.py +193 -0
  36. argrouter-0.1.0a1/tests/test_providers.py +170 -0
  37. argrouter-0.1.0a1/tests/test_router.py +53 -0
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+ # Bu dosyayi .env olarak kopyalayip doldur. .env gitignore'da, asla commit edilmez.
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+ #
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+ # cp .env.example .env
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+ #
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+ # Fiyat katalogu icin anahtar GEREKMEZ (OpenRouter /models ucu herkese acik).
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+ # Asagidakiler sadece gercek cagri yapip maliyet dogrulamak icin.
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+
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+ OPENROUTER_API_KEY=
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+ OPENAI_API_KEY=
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+ name: CI
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+ on:
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+ push: { branches: [main] }
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+ pull_request:
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+ permissions:
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+ contents: read # en dar varsayilan - Scorecard Token-Permissions
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+ jobs:
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+ test:
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+ runs-on: ubuntu-latest
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+ strategy:
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+ matrix:
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+ python: ["3.10", "3.13"]
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+ steps:
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+ - uses: actions/checkout@v4
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+ - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v5
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+ - run: uv python install ${{ matrix.python }}
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+ - run: uv sync --all-extras --group dev
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+ - run: uv run pytest --cov=argrouter --cov-report=term-missing
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+ - run: uv run mypy src/
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+ - run: uv run ruff check .
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+ - run: uv run ruff format --check .
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+ name: Release
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+ on:
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+ release: { types: [published] }
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+ permissions:
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+ contents: read
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+ jobs:
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+ publish:
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+ runs-on: ubuntu-latest
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+ environment: pypi # zorunlu inceleme kapisi - PyPI tavsiyesi
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+ permissions:
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+ id-token: write # Trusted Publishing + PEP 740 attestation
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+ attestations: write
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+ steps:
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+ - uses: actions/checkout@v4
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+ - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v5
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+ - run: uv build
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+ - run: unzip -l dist/*.whl | grep -q py.typed || (echo "py.typed wheel'de yok" && exit 1)
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+ - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
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+ with:
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+ attestations: true # vLLM, httpx, instructor ve guncel litellm'de YOK
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+ __pycache__/
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+ *.py[cod]
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+ .venv/
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+ dist/
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+ build/
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+ *.egg-info/
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+ .pytest_cache/
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+ .mypy_cache/
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+ .ruff_cache/
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+ .env
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+ bench/runs/
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+ *.jsonl
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+ .coverage
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+ .coverage.*
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+ htmlcov/
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+ dist/
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+ !bench/results/
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+ !bench/results/*.jsonl
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+ route_data/
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+ bench/routerarena/
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+ # Contributing
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+ ## Sign-off (DCO), not a CLA
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+ Contributions are accepted under the
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+ ```bash
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+ **Why a DCO and not a CLA.** A CLA exists to let a maintainer relicense your
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+ work later. We do not intend to do that: core contributions stay under
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+ Apache-2.0 permanently. Apache-2.0 §5 already gives this project inbound code
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+ on the same terms as outbound, together with each contributor's §3 patent
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+ grant — so a CLA would add a legal hurdle without adding anything we need.
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+ If this project ever has commercial components, they will be written by the
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+ maintainers in a separately-licensed directory, not by relicensing anything you
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+ contributed. That directory does not exist today, and the license will stay a
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+ clean `Apache-2.0` identifier until it does.
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+
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+ ## Before you open a PR
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ uv sync --all-extras --group dev # or: pip install -e . && pip install pytest mypy ruff
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+ pytest # 90% coverage gate is enforced
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+ mypy src/
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+ ruff check .
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+ ```
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+ `pip` is supported as a first-class path throughout. `uv` is what the
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+ maintainers use day to day; nothing in this project requires it.
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+
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+ ## What we especially want
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+
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+ - **Price-catalog corrections.** If a model's cache multiplier, context tier or
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+ per-request fee is wrong in the snapshot, that is a real bug — expected cost
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+ is the whole point of this project.
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+ - **Counter-examples to the routing thesis.** Workloads where routing loses. We
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+ publish those; see `PRE-REGISTRATION.md`.
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+ - **Benchmark scrutiny.** If a baseline looks untuned or a cost figure looks
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+ flattering, say so in an issue. That critique is more valuable here than a
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+ Metadata-Version: 2.5
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+ Name: argrouter
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+ Version: 0.1.0a1
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+ Summary: LLM router that picks the model and reasoning effort per query from accuracy and real billed cost. #1 on RouterArena. Includes a correct per-request LLM cost engine.
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/harunercul/argrouter
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+ Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/harunercul/argrouter
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+ Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/harunercul/argrouter/releases
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+ Author: Harun Ercul
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Keywords: cost optimization,llm cost,llm gateway,llm observability,llm router,llm routing,llmops,model router,model selection,openrouter,prompt caching,token cost
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
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+ Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.10
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+ Requires-Dist: httpx>=0.27
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+ Provides-Extra: bench
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+ Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.26; extra == 'bench'
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+ Requires-Dist: scipy>=1.12; extra == 'bench'
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+ Provides-Extra: cli
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+ Requires-Dist: typer>=0.15; extra == 'cli'
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+ Provides-Extra: deepinfra
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+ Provides-Extra: fireworks
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+ Provides-Extra: groq
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+ Provides-Extra: openrouter
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+ Provides-Extra: router
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+ Requires-Dist: fastembed>=0.4; extra == 'router'
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+ Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.26; extra == 'router'
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+ Provides-Extra: server
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+ Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.115; extra == 'server'
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+ Requires-Dist: uvicorn[standard]>=0.34; extra == 'server'
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+ Provides-Extra: together
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ # argrouter — pick the LLM, and how hard it should think, per query
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+
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+ argrouter routes each request to the model **and reasoning effort** that maximise
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+ `P(correct) − λ · expected cost`, where the cost is what that model actually bills on
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+ similar requests (hidden reasoning tokens included), not its list price. Two models with
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+ the same price tag can differ 10× in real cost because one of them thinks for 3,000
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+ tokens before answering.
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+ **On [RouterArena](https://github.com/RouteWorks/RouterArena)** (ICLR 2026, the open router
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+ leaderboard) argrouter scores **76.30**, ahead of the current #1 (76.28), at
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+ **$0.56 per 1,000 queries**. [Details below.](#routerarena)
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+ The cost engine underneath is usable on its own:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from argrouter.catalog.pricing import Catalog, expected_cost
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+ catalog = Catalog.from_snapshot("prices.json") # vendored, offline, SHA-pinned
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+ model = catalog.get("anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5") # unknown id raises; never $0
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+ cost = expected_cost(
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+ model,
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+ input_tokens=20_000, # a RAG call: long prompt, short answer
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+ expected_output_tokens=500, # forecast, not a YAML constant
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+ cached_input_tokens=18_000, # cache state enters the decision
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+ )
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+
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+ print(cost.total_usd) # 0.0141
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+ print(cost.as_dict()) # every component separately auditable
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install argrouter # one dependency: httpx
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+ ```
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+ > **Status: alpha.** The cost engine, provider selection and router inference API are
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+ > released and tested. Router training and the trained weights are not part of the
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+ > open-source package.
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+
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+ ---
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+ ## Why cost-aware LLM routing usually gets the cost wrong
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+ Output tokens are typically 60–90% of an LLM bill, and the field does not
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+ forecast them. Three failures are common, and all three are in shipped code
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+ today:
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+
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+ | Failure | Consequence |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | Adding `input_rate + output_rate` | Ranking is wrong for any workload that isn't 1:1 |
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+ | A constant `expected_output_tokens` in YAML | The number that dominates the bill is a guess you typed |
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+ | Unpriced model treated as `$0` | The model nobody priced always wins "cheapest" |
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+ argrouter's position is narrow and checkable: **be the project whose cost number
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+ is right.** Not another selection algorithm — a correct denominator.
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+
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+ ## Does routing break prompt caching?
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+
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+ Usually yes, and this is the strongest argument against routers in general.
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+ Prompt caches are **model-scoped**. Cache reads cost 0.1× base input — and as
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+ little as 0.025× on some models — so switching models mid-session can forfeit a
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+ 75–97% discount to chase a smaller routing saving.
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+ argrouter treats this as a first-class cost term rather than a footnote:
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+
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+ - **Cache state is priced at decision time.** The forfeited cache discount is
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+ subtracted from the candidate's expected saving *before* it is compared.
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+ - **Minimum-cacheable thresholds are honoured.** Below the per-model minimum,
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+ providers silently do not cache and charge full rate. argrouter records that
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+ explicitly instead of quietly over-estimating the discount.
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+ - **Session affinity** keeps a conversation on its model unless the measured
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+ saving exceeds the measured cache loss.
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+ When we publish a benchmark, the baseline runs with **caching fully enabled and
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+ warmed**, and **the cache-hit rate of every arm is published next to its cost**.
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+ A cost claim measured against a cache-disabled baseline is void, and we would
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+ rather say that ourselves than have it said in a comment thread.
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+ ## When argrouter will not help you
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+ - **Long agentic sessions on one model with a warm cache.** Keep the cache. Use
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+ cost tracking only.
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+ - **Uniformly hard workloads.** Published routers beat random routing by ~14% on
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+ knowledge-dense benchmarks while still needing the frontier model for over half
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+ of calls. Some traffic is simply not routable.
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+ - **Single-shape workloads.** If every request looks the same, choose the model
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+ once at build time. You do not need a router.
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+ - **Workloads where output *style* matters.** Switching models changes voice.
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+ You should know this before you install it, not after.
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+ ## RouterArena
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+ [RouterArena](https://github.com/RouteWorks/RouterArena) (ICLR 2026) scores routers on 8,400
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+ queries from 23 public benchmarks: accuracy, weighted with log-scaled cost (β = 0.1).
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+ argrouter on all 8,400 queries, scored with RouterArena's own evaluation code:
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+ | router | arena | accuracy | $ / 1K queries |
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+ |---|---:|---:|---:|
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+ | **argrouter** | **76.30** | 79.40% | 0.56 |
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+ | KT-ModelRouter (current #1) | 76.28 | 78.14% | 0.27 |
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+ | Sqwish Router (#2) | 76.21 | 79.76% | 0.70 |
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+ | Divyam (#3) | 75.85 | 78.59% | 0.48 |
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+ | NotDiamond (powers OpenRouter Auto) | 57.29 | 60.83% | 4.10 |
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+ | RouteLLM | 48.07 | 47.04% | 0.27 |
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+ **How it was run.** The pool is five models; reasoning effort is part of the choice
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+ (gemini-3.8-flash at low effort, gemma-4-31b, glm-5.3-flash, gpt-6-luna,
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+ mimo-v2.6-flash), chosen by greedy forward selection. The router reads **only the
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+ question content**: the instruction and answer-format paragraphs are dropped with generic
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+ rules, and no RouterArena file is read. It was trained on 3,562 held-out items from the
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+ same public sources, every RouterArena item excluded, with sources weighted equally.
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+ **What we got wrong along the way**, because a leaderboard number is only worth its
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+ history:
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+ | version | arena | why it is not the submission |
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+ | v1 | 75.90 | first run |
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+ | v2 | 77.42 | routed on full prompts (which include RouterArena's per-dataset instruction text) and weighted by RouterArena's dataset mix. Both count as fitting to RouterArena under its rules ([#213](https://github.com/RouteWorks/RouterArena/pull/213)), so v2 was withdrawn before submission. |
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+ | **v3** | **76.30** | content-only routing, equal source weights; λ and pool fixed before the run. |
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+ Routing on content only did not cost accuracy on our own data; it was the equal source
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+ weighting that shifted traffic to cheaper models (cost −34%, accuracy −2.3 points vs v2).
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+ Nothing was tuned after seeing a RouterArena result. Submission to the official
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+ leaderboard is pending.
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+ ## How much does it actually save?
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+ **Model routing:** not measured yet. When it is, the number will be reported as
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+ all-in cost (including this library's own overhead and every retried call), per
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+ stratum, against **the best fixed single model** — not against the most expensive
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+ model in the pool, which is how savings in this category are usually inflated.
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+ **Provider selection (same model, many providers): measured, and the honest answer
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+ is "about the same as OpenRouter's own price sort".** Two runs, 377 billed calls,
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+ 4 open-weight models × 3 workloads, every cost taken from OpenRouter's `usage.cost`
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+ ([raw data and method](bench/results/README.md)):
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+ | strategy | billed, both runs | vs thrift |
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+ | OpenRouter default routing | $0.03123 | +67% |
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+ | OpenRouter `sort: price` + same quantization floor | $0.01892 | +1% |
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+ | rank providers by input + output price (LiteLLM/Plano rule) | $0.01885 | +1% |
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+ | argrouter | $0.01874 | — |
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+ What this means: if you call open-weight models through OpenRouter, **turning on
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+ any price-aware provider sort saves ~40% over the default**, and that is most of
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+ the win. argrouter's mix-aware ranking only changes the pick when two providers'
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+ input/output prices cross (here: `gpt-oss-120b`, 1–4% cheaper on the output-heavy
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+ workloads, worse on RAG whenever its pick was busy); the rest of the
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+ gap between price-aware strategies is availability noise, not ranking. argrouter
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+ also enforces a quality floor (≥ fp8, ≥ 99% uptime) that the price sort does not.
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+ We have pre-committed to publishing the result **when routing loses**.
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+ ## Install
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install argrouter # core: httpx only
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+ pip install "argrouter[server]" # optional /v1/decision sidecar
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+ ```
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+ Python 3.10+. Fully typed, `py.typed` shipped.
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+ ## How it fits with your existing gateway
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+ argrouter does **not** reimplement the OpenAI wire format. Over half of the open
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+ issues on the largest gateway in this space are request-translation bugs; that is
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+ a maintenance burden with no upside for a routing project.
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+ Instead it is a decision layer: a `/v1/decision` sidecar and plugins for gateways
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+ that already own the bytes. **We win the decision; your gateway keeps the
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+ transport.**
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+ ## Supply chain
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+ The dominant package in this category was compromised on PyPI, and that is a
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+ standing cost to everyone shipping here. argrouter commits to:
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+ - **One runtime dependency** (`httpx`)
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+ - **PyPI Trusted Publishing** with **PEP 740 attestations** — no long-lived token
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+ - **No install-time code execution**
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+ - A **vendored, SHA-pinned price snapshot** — no network call at import
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+ ## Prior art and credit
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+ The price catalog is seeded from [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/)'s public
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+ models API, which co-locates pricing with quality indices, and from
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+ [models.dev](https://models.dev/). The candidate-filtering and scoring shape is
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+ informed by
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+ [vllm-project/semantic-router](https://github.com/vllm-project/semantic-router)
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+ (Apache-2.0), which is the strongest open implementation of multi-factor
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+ selection. [RouteLLM](https://github.com/lm-sys/RouteLLM) defined the evaluation
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+ vocabulary this project is measured in, and
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+ [RouterArena](https://github.com/RouteWorks/RouterArena) provides the benchmark, scorer
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+ and price table the leaderboard result above uses.
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+ This project was briefly published as `thriftllm`. It was renamed to avoid confusion with
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+ [ThriftLLM](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04901) (Huang et al., 2025), an unrelated paper on
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+ budget-constrained LLM ensemble selection, and with the thriftllm.com gateway.
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+ ## License
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+ Apache-2.0. Contributions under [DCO](https://developercertificate.org/)
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+ (`git commit -s`). See [LICENSE](LICENSE).