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title: Model Auto-Router: Let DatBot Pick the Best Model for You
description: Stop guessing which AI model to use. Auto-Router analyzes your request and picks the right one automatically.
date: January 12, 2026
author: Robert Soares
category: feature
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You've got 40+ AI models at your fingertips. Cool. But which one should you actually use?

GPT for reasoning? Claude for writing? Gemini for long documents? DeepSeek for code?

Here's a secret: most of the time, it doesn't matter as much as you think. And when it does matter, you probably don't want to spend 5 minutes deciding.

Enter Model Auto-Router.

## What It Does

Auto-Router looks at your message and automatically picks:
1. The best model for that specific request
2. The right temperature setting

You type. It figures out the rest.

## How to Use It

1. Open Settings (gear icon)
2. Check **"Enable Model Auto-Router"**
3. That's it. Start chatting.

When it's on, you won't see model or temperature dropdowns. Because you don't need them.

## When It's Useful

**You're new to AI tools.** Don't know the difference between GPT and Claude? Doesn't matter. Auto-Router handles it.

**Your tasks vary a lot.** Writing a poem, then analyzing data, then debugging code? Each request gets the right model without you switching anything.

**You just want answers.** Not everyone wants to be an AI sommelier. Sometimes you just want to ask a question and get a good response.

## When to Turn It Off

**You have strong preferences.** Maybe you love Claude's writing style. Maybe GPT just "gets" you. Fair enough.

**You're optimizing costs.** Different models use different credits. Manual selection lets you pick cheaper models for simple tasks.

**You're testing.** Comparing how different models handle the same prompt? You'll need manual control.

**Specific use cases.** Deep Dive research, coding with Claude Sonnet, creative writing with Opus—if you know exactly what you want, pick it yourself.

## How Smart Is It?

Pretty smart. It analyzes:
- What you're asking for (code, writing, analysis, etc.)
- How complex the request is
- What kind of response would work best

It's not magic. It won't always pick the absolute optimal model. But it'll pick a good one, fast, without you thinking about it.

## The Bottom Line

Auto-Router removes a decision you probably didn't want to make anyway.

Turn it on if you want things to just work.

Turn it off if you want control.

Either way, you've got options.