Provider Arbitrage

Arbitrage requires substitutability. Where an organization's prompts, index and logic are entangled with one provider, the switching cost exceeds any price difference and the option is theoretical — which is precisely the position providers prefer their customers to occupy. Where those assets are held independently, routing becomes an ordinary optimization: a summarization task to a cheap model, a reasoning task to a strong one, a sensitive task to a local one. The organization captures the benefit of a competitive market instead of being a captive of whichever vendor it standardized on first.

Because Centralpoint holds the index, the prompts and the skills in the organization's own environment and selects the model at runtime, routing is a decision rather than a migration. Token consumption across providers can be metered and paid through Oxcyon on a single consolidated invoice at a discount to published rates, which turns multi-provider use into one accounting surface instead of several.