Baseten announced Grid on November 4, 2026, opening a public preview of its routing, gateway and guardrails layer for enterprise AI coding. The company reported that Baseten Router achieved nearly 70% savings in cost per task in initial benchmarks, with a 0.9-percentage-point quality tradeoff against Opus 5.5; early access is handled through a waitlist. Routing Beyond Token Prices Grid automates a choice that developers otherwise make themselves: which approved model should handle each coding…