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***Complex/High-value queries → Strong inference models**: Legal analysis, financial simulations, etc., are routed to models with Chain-of-Thought capabilities.
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The logic behind this mechanism is called **"Unit Token Economics"**. Every token generated is no longer a meaningless "consumption" but must bring value:
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The logic behind this mechanism is called **"Per-token Unit Economics"**.
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* Free-tier users can still get responses through light models, **controlling costs**.
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Every token generated is no longer a meaningless "consumption" but must bring value.
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* Once a query involves commercial intent (e.g., booking flights, finding lawyers), it will be routed to high-computation models + Agent services, **directly connecting to transaction loops**, where OpenAI can take a commission from the transaction.
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Free-tier users receive answers from lightweight models, keeping costs under control.
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When a query shows commercial intent (e.g., booking flights or finding legal services), it is routed to high-computation models and agent services that plug directly into transaction flows.
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This means **free traffic is finally monetized**.
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For use cases like this, companies such as OpenAI can participate in the value chain by taking a commission on completed transactions — turning free traffic from a cost center into a monetizable entry point.
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Meanwhile, other companies are rapidly following suit:
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Amid the industry's push for "Hybrid inference," we focus on the **open-source inference engine vLLM**.
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vLLM has become the de facto standard for deploying large models in the industry. However, it lacks "semantic-level fine control." Developers either enable full inference (wasting computation) or disable inference entirely (losing accuracy).
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vLLM has become the de facto standard for deploying large models in the industry. However, it lacks fine-grained semantic-level control - the ability to decide based on meaning rather than just query type. As a result, developers either enable full inference (wasting computation) or disable inference entirely (losing accuracy).
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Thus, we propose the **vLLM Semantic Router**, bringing GPT-5's "smart routing" capabilities to the open-source ecosystem.
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Experimental data shows:
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***Accuracy**: Improved by **+10.2 percentage points**
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***Accuracy**: Improved by **+10.2%**
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***Latency**: Reduced by **47.1%**
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***Token Consumption**: Decreased by **48.5%**
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Especially in knowledge-intensive areas like business and economics, accuracy improvements even exceed **20 percentage points**.
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Especially in knowledge-intensive areas like business and economics, accuracy improvements even exceed **20%**.
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## **Background of the vLLM Semantic Router Project**
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