Jev did not make Claude Code cheaper. Its own benchmark says so.
Six videos in five days wired Jev into Claude Code and called it the cheapest agentic coding loop available. I installed the gateway too. Then I did the thing none of those videos did, which is open the code. One ternary in src/adapters/messages.ts , line 99, answers the entire question: steer : thinking || cached ? " hint " : " tool_choice " If thinking is on, or the conversation is cached, the…
Jev did not make Claude Code cheaper, according to the gateway's own benchmark. The gateway, Jev, does not reduce cost or latency for Claude Code. Instead, its purpose is to improve tool selections when given a large number of tools. The hint mode, which is the only mode in Claude Code, costs $0.042 per million input tokens and results in a TypeSafe decision model with a probability or score.
The benchmark conducted by the gateway author shows mixed results, with some tasks benefiting from routing and others not. The gateway charges a high price for its services, with a routing model being handed a large question to return only four tokens. This setup may be costly and inefficient for users with a large number of tools and tasks.
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