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The escalation rate is a first-order term in the cost model: if the cheap tier costs C1 per call, the frontier tier costs C3, and the escalation rate is r, the effective cost is approximately C1 + r·C3; when r rises from 5% to 40%, the latter term may dominate or even exceed the baseline of sending everything to the frontier tier.
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