Cutting Claude Code costs by routing subagents to cheap AI
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Finding that 69% of their Claude Code spend was tool output, they built swarmtier, which lets Opus plan and decide while Haiku and the cheapest capable model handle subagent work; it's open source.
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Posted by@guivargas51
DateOct 16, 2026
Category🧪 Web dev & testing
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