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Compatibility lowers migration cost, but it also creates a cleaner foundation for routing, pricing, and provider choice.

A practical look at cost control when teams mix premium and lower-cost model routes.

Why Cheap Model treats multimodal access as a platform problem instead of a collection of disconnected endpoints.