model.cards
Auto Router
Released Jul 27, 2026 · 0 tokens this week · 1 provider
Overview
The smart default. Every request is scored for complexity — length, code, reasoning demands, conversation depth — and routed to the lightest model that can genuinely handle it, chosen from the providers you have connected keys for. Simple asks land on fast, cheap models; hard ones escalate to frontier reasoning models. The router learns from your own usage log: models that recently failed for you are routed around automatically. You pay only what your own provider bills for the model that served the request.
Providers
Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic
| PROVIDER | MAX OUT | OUTPUT /M | QUANT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
model.cardsCheapest | 200K | 33K | Free | Free | 60ms | 400 | 100.00% | Full |
Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.
Price comparison
Blended $ per 1M tokens
Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.
Call it
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go
curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "modelcards/auto",
"messages": [
{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
]
}'