PocoToken

PocoToken: Intelligent Local-to-Cloud Hybrid Router PocoToken is an intelligent, containerized hybrid LLM routing engine built by AI Amigos to solve the cost-accuracy tradeoff in enterprise AI deployments. In modern applications, up to 70% of LLM workloads consist of simple operations like sentiment classification, basic arithmetic, and short text summaries. Despite their simplicity, these queries are routinely sent to expensive cloud models, bleeding premium tokens and increasing latency. PocoToken solves this inefficiency by introducing a multi-tiered routing pipeline. Incoming prompts are first evaluated by high-speed Python heuristics, regular expressions, and context-length gates. Clear, light NLP and math tasks are immediately offloaded to a quantized local GGUF model running on zero-cost hardware in the container. For ambiguous queries, a fast local few-shot classifier determines task complexity at zero token cost. Premium external APIs (via Fireworks) are only used when absolutely necessary for complex coding, debugging, or multi-step logic. To squeeze even more savings out of every external call, PocoToken utilizes strict system prompt engineering to ban conversational filler and formatting overhead, compressing remote model outputs by up to 80%. Engineered to fit inside highly restricted Docker environments (4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs), PocoToken incorporates auto-repairing JSON parsers and robust connection retries, delivering a production-ready gateway that maintains enterprise-grade accuracy while slashing API token costs by up to 90%.