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Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

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Why This Matters

This new routing solution simplifies and optimizes model selection across multiple AI providers, enabling developers to seamlessly integrate and manage diverse models with a single endpoint. Its ability to automatically choose the best model for each request enhances performance, cost-efficiency, and security, making it a significant advancement for AI deployment and scalability in the industry.

Key Takeaways

One endpoint. Every model. Always the right one. A drop-in proxy for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini that picks the best model for every request: using a tiny on-box embedder, not a vibes-based prompt. 🥇 #1 on the RouterArena leaderboard 1 — Acc-Cost Arena 76.09. Built by Weave: The #1 engineering intelligence platform, loved by Robinhood, PostHog, Reducto, and hundreds of others.

What it does

Point Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or your own app at localhost:8080 . The router:

🎯 Routes per request. A cluster scorer derived from Avengers-Pro 2 picks the right model from your enabled providers, every turn.

A cluster scorer derived from Avengers-Pro picks the right model from your enabled providers, every turn. 🔌 Speaks everyone's API. Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions, Gemini native. Streaming, tools, vision, the works.

Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions, Gemini native. Streaming, tools, vision, the works. 🧠 Knows OSS too. DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Qwen, Llama, Mistral via OpenRouter (or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint).

DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Qwen, Llama, Mistral via OpenRouter (or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint). 🔒 BYOK by default. Provider keys stay on your box, encrypted at rest.

Provider keys stay on your box, encrypted at rest. 📊 Observable. OTLP traces out of the box. See your dashboard in the Weave dashboard (http://localhost:8080/ui/dashboard) or drop in Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana, whatever.

30-second quickstart

The fastest way: point Claude Code, Codex, or opencode at the hosted Weave Router with one command. No clone, no Docker, no Postgres.

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