How to Add Cost-Aware Model Selection to Your AI Agent

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WhichModel is an open MCP server for cost-aware model selection.
It tracks pricing and capabilities across 100+ LLM models.
Add it to an MCP client with https://whichmodel.dev/mcp; no API key or installation is needed.
It can return a recommended model, a budget alternative, cost estimates, and reasoning.
Pricing updates every 4 hours, and at 10,000 calls/day the gap is $216/day between $15/M-token and $0.60/M-token models.

