1. Workload Scale
600M tok/mo
2. Routing Topology Split
100%
Semantic Cache
35%
$0.01 / $0.01 per MTok · ~15ms latency
Distilled Domain SLM (3B-8B)
20%
$0.15 / $0.60 per MTok · ~90ms latency
Mid-Tier General (70B)
30%
$0.80 / $2.40 per MTok · ~350ms latency
Frontier Reasoning (400B+)
15%
$5.00 / $15.00 per MTok · ~1400ms latency
Monthly Expenditure & Architecture Variance
-76.3% Cost Reduction
Monolithic Baseline
$4,500
100% Frontier
Tiered Operating Cost
$1,066
Save $3,434 / mo
Blended Unit Cost
$1.78
per 1M tokens
2028 5-Yr Cumulative
$382K
Cumulative Net Save
2024–2028 Compounding Annual Inference Budget
Demand surge vs Hardware deflation
Monolithic Frontier Cost
Optimized Tiered Architecture
Defended Margin
3. Service Level Telemetry
98.4% Acc
Inference Latency Profile
| Percentile | Monolithic | Tiered Router | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| p50 (Median) | 1,250 ms | 110 ms | -91.2% |
| p95 (Tail) | 1,800 ms | 580 ms | -67.7% |
| p99 (Peak) | 2,950 ms | 1,650 ms | -44.1% |
Task Accuracy Retention
Semantic Cache Revalidation
99.8%
Narrow Task Domain Precision
96.4%
Multi-Step Synthesis Reasoning
99.2%
4. Engineering Handoff