Confidence Thresholds for Model Escalation Routing
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Confidence-based escalation keeps most requests on a cheap model and sends only the ones it is unsure about to a stronger one.
This guide covers forcing a numeric confidence field with structured outputs, setting the threshold from error rates on your own traffic, tuning it against accuracy, cost, and latency, routing the escalation in your code, and re-tuning it after launch.
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