Based on Glean's 37-Model Enterprise Benchmark across 1,000 tasks (36x cost span vs. 22% quality gain)
Aggregated Task Quality94.6%
Optimized Monthly Cost$3,420
100% Frontier Baseline Cost$18,000
Token Cost Savings81.0%
37-Model Pareto Frontier (Cost vs. Task Quality)8 Models on Convex Hull
Empirical Finding: Frontier models cost up to 36x more than compact/distilled models for an average quality gain of just 22%. Intelligent cascading bridges 94%+ quality at a fraction of baseline expense.