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Cost Routing

orchestrator-mcp can bias routing using:

  • daily budgets
  • weekly budgets
  • provider pricing weights
  • poor-man's mode

Poor-man's mode

Enable budgets.poor_mans_mode: true to strongly prefer cheap or local providers before cloud fallbacks.

Why this matters

Most orchestration tools focus on capability. Public adoption usually depends just as much on predictable cost.