+TRY THIS
Close the cloud door.
Choose Local only. Remote candidates become ineligible. Then switch your local model offline: the request stops instead of falling back to a remote provider.
+THE ROUTING STUDIO
See the decision.
Follow the route.
A clear view of every decision. Set a policy, follow the selected path, and compare three sample providers.
ROUTING POLICY
Weigh estimated cost, latency, and reliability together.
PROVIDER AVAILABILITY
Switch it off to test an unavailable route.
Sample routing.
No inference sent.
No inference sent.
SELECTED ROUTEBalanced
Trusted peer
Best combined sample score: 40% estimated cost, 40% latency, and 20% reputation.
Your toollocal-chat
cairn
Local modelEligible
01Your APIEligible
02Trusted peerSelected
033 eligible destinationsSample request path
Provider comparison
REQUEST ESTIMATES| Provider | Est. cost | Latency | Reliability* |
|---|---|---|---|
Trusted peerSelected | Est. cost$0.0010 | Latency410 ms | Reliability*98.8% |
Configured APIEligible | Est. cost$0.0032 | Latency240 ms | Reliability*99.5% |
Your local modelEligible | Est. cost$0.0000 | Latency840 ms | Reliability*96% |
*Sample reliability is a reputation proxy. Bars compare sample latency against 840 ms.
Inspect decision
- Model alias
- local-chat
- Policy
- Balanced
- Outcome
- Sample route selected
- Trusted peerBest combined sample score: 40% estimated cost, 40% latency, and 20% reputation.
- Configured APIEligible under this policy.
- Your local modelEligible under this policy.
This preview uses illustrative scoring. It does not contact your router or send an inference request.
Illustrative estimates. No models or API keys required. This preview demonstrates policy tradeoffs, not production scoring.
+READ THE NUMBERS
Estimates, with context.
Prices are synthetic request estimates. Latency is sample time to response headers. The demo uses reliability as a simple stand-in for reputation.
+A DELIBERATE CHOICE
One alias. Your substitutes.
These providers share the sample alias local-chat. In Cairn, you choose which models can substitute for one another. A shared alias does not promise equal quality.
How does this demo choose a route?
Balanced uses an illustrative normalized score: 40% estimated cost, 40% latency, and 20% reputation. Lowest cost or Lowest latency ranks eligible providers by that single criterion. Local only filters out remote providers before selection.
All numbers and identities are sample fixtures. This page makes no provider calls and does not connect to your local router. The actual router uses configured prices, estimated token usage, operator priors, and locally observed reliability. The peer price illustrates a future paid-capacity scenario; public-chain payments remain disabled.
+YOUR MACHINE. YOUR DIRECTION.
Ready to find your own route?
Start with the synthetic beta demo, then connect your own models.