# Cursor Router: Auto Model Selection Cuts AI Coding Costs by 60% > Source: > Published: 2026-08-31 13:10:13+00:00 Cursor launched Router on July 22, 2026 — a request-level classifier trained on over 600,000 live coding sessions that picks the AI model for every prompt you send. The headline number: frontier-quality results at up to 68% lower cost. Teams paying $7+ per commit for Opus 4.8 can now match or beat those satisfaction scores for $4.63. That is not a benchmark claim. Cursor measured it in production, over millions of real developer requests, using A/B testing. Two Modes, One System When you select Auto in the Cursor model picker, Router runs a classifier on each agent request before any […] The post