Choose the right model for the job.
Describe your task and how private it has to be. We plot every route on the iron triangle, keep the ones that fit, and recommend the model — then show you the one-line shortcut.
Three axes, one honest tradeoff.
Smart is reasoning quality. Cheap is dollars per million tokens, straight from the live catalog. Fast is throughput — Cerebras-served gpt-oss, MiMo Ultraspeed and GLM-4.7 Flash sit right at the tip.
Pick a privacy floor — Open, Zero-retention (ZDR), or a hardware Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) with end-to-end encryption — and the board only keeps routes that clear it. Every route is attested at trust.trustedrouter.com.
base_url="https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1"
# let the router pick, per request:
model="trustedrouter/auto" # best fit, zero-retention
model="trustedrouter/cheap" # cheapest capable, TEE
model="trustedrouter/fusion" # fuse open models > frontierThe corner you actually want rarely exists in one model.
Frontier-smart, real-time-fast, dirt-cheap and private almost never coexist in a single model.
TrustedRouter's auto, cheap and fusion routes dissolve the
tradeoff — one OpenAI-shaped endpoint that picks per request and proves it never logged your prompt.
Questions
How do you decide which model fits?
Tell us the task and we estimate the intelligence it needs (simple to frontier), the latency you can tolerate (real-time to overnight), and a privacy floor. We keep only the routes that clear all three, then rank them by the smart/cheap/fast tradeoff you set on the triangle.
What do the privacy tiers mean?
Open routes any attested provider. Zero-retention (ZDR) only uses providers that contractually keep nothing. Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) runs in confidential compute with end-to-end encryption, so even the provider can't read your prompt.
Which models are fastest?
Cerebras-served gpt-oss, Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 Ultraspeed and GLM-4.7 Flash sit at the fast tip of the triangle — hundreds to thousands of tokens per second.
Do I have to pick one model?
No. trustedrouter/auto picks the best fit per request, trustedrouter/cheap takes the cheapest capable route in a TEE, and trustedrouter/fusion combines open models to beat any single frontier model — all through one OpenAI-shaped API.