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id: "AE22-019"
category: "model_routing"
confidence: 0.93
date: "2026-02-15"
source_file: "docs/KIMI_K25_ACTIVATION.md (Part 5 Key Insights)"
---

# AE22-019

Tiered model routing (Kimi for swarms -> Claude for code review -> GPT for reasoning) achieves 82% cost reduction vs using a single frontier model for all tasks, because each model excels in a different capability dimension
