AI model routing economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic

Baseline AI model routing: workload inventory, cost per accepted output, task success, latency, task samples, failure scenarios, and graded savings claims.

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Executive summary

A method for finding out what each AI workload costs per accepted output and which ones could use cheaper models, before anyone changes routing.

What is inside

What the baseline diagnostic covers

The asset walks a diagnostic lead through the workload inventory, cost per accepted output, task success and latency, task sampling, failures, claim grading, and sign-off. It ends with a diagnostic questionnaire and an evidence inventory.

Inventorying AI workloads and spend
Measuring cost per accepted output
Measuring task success and latency
Sampling tasks across model tiers

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How teams use it

Teams use it when AI spend is growing faster than budget, when a vendor offers a router, or after a quality incident. The AI platform team, workload owners, finance, and risk run it over four weeks; the chief digital officer signs the baseline.

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Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). AI model routing economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/ai-model-routing-economics-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic

Stratenity Advisory Team. "AI model routing economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/ai-model-routing-economics-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "AI model routing economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/ai-model-routing-economics-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) AI model routing economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/ai-model-routing-economics-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic (Accessed: the date of access).

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AI model routing economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic

What the baseline diagnostic covers

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