diff --git a/src/config.js b/src/config.js
index 1291858..e9f3c75 100644
--- a/src/config.js
+++ b/src/config.js
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ if (process.env.FINNHUB_API_KEY)       config.finnhub.apiKey = process.env.FINNH
 if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_API_KEY)      config.openRouter.apiKey = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_API_KEY;
 if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_LLM_MODEL)    config.openRouter.llmModel = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_LLM_MODEL;
 if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_EMBED_MODEL)  config.openRouter.embeddingModel = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_EMBED_MODEL;
+// OPEN_ROUTER_CHEAP_MODEL was already set in the environment and nothing read it,
+// so graph entity resolution ran on the reasoning model: 7,558 reasoning tokens to
+// answer "reply with just the number", 113x the cost of a model that just answers.
+if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_CHEAP_MODEL) config.openRouter.cheapModel = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_CHEAP_MODEL;
 
 if (process.env.GDELT_BQ_PROJECT)   config.gdelt.bigQueryProject = process.env.GDELT_BQ_PROJECT;
 if (process.env.GDELT_BQ_KEY_FILE)  config.gdelt.bigQueryKeyFile = process.env.GDELT_BQ_KEY_FILE;
diff --git a/workers/index.js b/workers/index.js
index 769a406..a8804b2 100644
--- a/workers/index.js
+++ b/workers/index.js
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ const openRouter = { ...rawConfig.openRouter };
 if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_API_KEY)     openRouter.apiKey = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_API_KEY;
 if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_LLM_MODEL)   openRouter.llmModel = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_LLM_MODEL;
 if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_EMBED_MODEL) openRouter.embeddingModel = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_EMBED_MODEL;
+// OPEN_ROUTER_CHEAP_MODEL was already set in the environment and nothing read it,
+// so graph entity resolution ran on the reasoning model: 7,558 reasoning tokens to
+// answer "reply with just the number", 113x the cost of a model that just answers.
+if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_CHEAP_MODEL) openRouter.cheapModel = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_CHEAP_MODEL;
 
 const config = {
   duriin_db: process.env.DURIIN_DB || resolvePath(rawConfig.duriin_db, path.resolve(configDir, "archive.sqlite")),