---
title: "Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-30"
time: "2:50pm-3:10pm"
track: "Sandbox & Platform Engineering"
room: "Leadership 2"
speakers: ["Tomás Hernando Kofman"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Sandbox & Platform Engineering"
scheduleRoom: "Leadership 2"
scheduleLabels: ["Sandbox & Platform Engineering", "Leadership 2", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 2:50pm-3:10pm
- Track/room: Sandbox & Platform Engineering · Leadership 2
- Speaker(s): Tomás Hernando Kofman
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: Sandbox & Platform Engineering
- Room: Leadership 2
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
It is Summer 2026 and the world is burning for token consumption—figuratively and literally. Accelerating frontier model capabilities increasingly allow agents to operate across long-running, highly parallelized tasks at exponential inference growth. In this talk, I explain how dynamic model routing—intelligently directing agent requests to the best-suited model at the best price—can reduce token costs by up to 90% while maintaining or improving accuracy. I walk through how routing works, when it doesn't, and why the world (and your agent) need routing to scale intelligence to infinity and beyond.

## Media Evidence
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## Evidence Graph
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## Transcript Status
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## People
- [[tom-s-hernando-kofman]]

## Notes
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## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 2:50pm-3:10pm - Track/room: Sandbox & Platform Engineering · Leadership 2 - Speaker(s): Tomás Hernando Kofman - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Sandbox & Platform Engineering - Room: Leadership 2 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description It is Summer 2026 and the world is burning for token consumption—figuratively and literally. Accelerating frontier model capabilities increasingly allow agents to operate across long-running, highly parallelized tasks at exponential inference growth. In this talk, I explain how dynamic model routing—intelligently directing agent requests to the best-suited model at the best price—can reduce token costs by up to 90% while maintaining or improving accuracy. I walk through how routing works, when it doesn't, and why the world (and your agent) need routing to scale intelligence to infinity and beyond.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[tom-s-hernando-kofman|Tomás Hernando Kofman]] — CEO & Co-Founder at [[not-diamond|Not Diamond]].

### Topics Covered
- [[ai-sandboxes]]

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