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1 / 3A perfect router would beat any single model by 5.4 points, and learned routers capture only 0.3×

The test

Route Anything tested model and policy routing across 25 benchmarks and 374,401 scored runs.

The result

Choosing the best candidate per input beats the best fixed choice by 5.4 points, while learned routers managed 0.3 across 16 benchmarks, though they did better on video and robot tasks.

The question

Products that sell automatic model selection should be asked which of those two numbers they deliver.

Sources and the full story

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A perfect router would beat any single model by 5.4 points, and learned routers capture only 0.3

Route Anything tested model and policy routing across 25 benchmarks and 374,401 scored runs. Choosing the best candidate per input beats the best fixed choice by 5.4 points, while learned routers managed 0.3 across 16 benchmarks, though they did better on video and robot tasks. Products that sell automatic model selection should be asked which of those two numbers they deliver. SourcesA

Sources

• ARoute Anything (Hugging Face Papers)huggingface.co

This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of November 4th 2026.