// Hacker Noon · 28 April 2026

I Built an LLM Cascade in Python to Cut My API Bill Without Touching My Prompts

A cascade is a routing layer sitting between your app and your LLM providers. Every incoming query gets scored for complexity, then sent to the cheapest model.

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