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Model Cascade is a routing strategy that trades off cost and quality: first use a cheap small model (such as the mini tier) to process all input, and only escalate that item to an expensive flagship model when it outputs low confidence, fails validation, or triggers specific conditions; the escalation rate directly determines total cost.
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