See the baseline
Connect compatible model traffic and attribute requests, tokens, cost, latency, routes, and outcomes to the right app and workload.
// AI agent cost optimization
Spend full model cost only when the work needs it.
Punk shows where your agents repeat themselves, then tests whether a cheaper path can produce an acceptable result. Nothing is assumed from a benchmark; the evidence comes from your workload.
For teams running recurring, reviewable model traffic. In observe-only mode, your configured provider remains the response source.
// where cost hides
Optimize the work, not only the token price.
Changing models can lower a rate card. An adaptive runtime looks at the larger execution pattern: repeated answers, stable tool reads, recurring plans, and requests that still require live reasoning.
Locate repetition
Identify exact and semantic repeats, cacheable reads, stable tool plans, and candidate reusable workflows.
Test a cheaper route
Compare candidates against historical and fresh traffic before a scoped route becomes eligible to serve.
// honest economics
Forecasts are not savings.
Punk separates what might have been saved in observe-only mode from what an eligible route actually saves after activation.
What you can evaluate
- Cost per request and route
- Cost per successful task when outcomes are available
- Ghost savings during observation
- Realized savings after verified routing
- Fallback and mismatch rates
What Punk does not promise
- A universal savings percentage
- That every workload contains repeatable work
- That a cheaper model is always acceptable
- That model traffic alone captures every agent cost
- That replay proves all future behavior
The category difference: an adaptive runtime connects cost evidence from prior runs to the execution path selected for the next one. It complements provider pricing, gateway controls, and observability.
// good first workload
Begin where repetition is reviewable.
Support classification
Structured categories, priority, and routing decisions with a clear reference set.
Record summaries
Consistent internal briefs produced from authorized, read-only source material.
Recurring research
Tool plans that repeat even when the underlying source data must remain fresh.
Find the expensive repetition first.
Start observe-only with compatible model traffic. Keep your current provider as the source of truth while Punk builds a workload-specific baseline.