Virtual poolant:balanced

ANT Balanced

Even speed and quality, with a quality floor of 60.

Quality floor: 60/100 or above

How this pool routes

ant:balanced is ant:auto with a guard rail: models scoring below 60 are excluded outright. Reach for it when you want sensible defaults but cannot tolerate the bottom of the catalog.

Best For

Production chatSummarizationGeneral assistants

Where requests went

Live routing over the last 30 days

Requests

167

Success rate

49.1%

Avg latency

784ms

ant:balancedUnknown50.9% · 85

deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731Semantic-cache24% · 40

openai/o3-miniSemantic-cache7.8% · 13

~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latestOpenRouter5.4% · 9

qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinkingSemantic-cache4.8% · 8

deepseek/deepseek-v3.1-terminusOpenRouter3.6% · 6

qwen/qwen3.5-9bOpenRouter1.8% · 3

qwen/qwen3.7-flashSemantic-cache1.8% · 3

Models in this pool

364 models across 16 providers currently qualify. Per-request limits (context size, cost caps, your model allowlist) narrow this further at routing time.

o1-pro

o1-pro

Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1

OpenRouter200K👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch)

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

OpenAI: o3 Mini High

OpenRouter200K🧠Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5

OpenRouter200K👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1 (batch)

OpenAI: o4 Mini High

GPT-5

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 5

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus Latest

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5

OpenRouter1M👁Q:95

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 (batch)

OpenRouter200K👁Q:95

Showing the 24 highest-scoring of 364.

Quick Start

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.antbase.ai/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_ANT_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="ant:balanced",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Routing weights

Speed50/100

Quality60/100

Cost50/100

Selection criteria

Quality floorrequired60/100 or above

Speed weight50/100

Quality weight60/100

Cost weight50/100

Model IDant:balanced

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