One of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes. I was considering using it for an uptime-critical project of mine.

The post-mortem will be worth watching.

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SamLeBarbare a day ago | parent | next [-]

OpenRouter: eliminating Single Points of Failure… by introducing a beautifully centralized one.

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lordofgibbons 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Their uptime is still infinitely better than any single provider though.

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sokoloff 21 hours ago | parent [-]

infinitely?

	▲	phh 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well in FP4

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drclegg a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be fair, it is still useful on this front; it's much faster than waiting for requests to fail and fallback to a backup yourself.

You still need another backup provider or two for cases like this though.

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logicchains a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>One of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes.

Only if you're using a model hosted by multiple providers (e.g. an open model).

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gkbrk a day ago | parent [-]

Nope, for closed models too. Claude for example has multiple providers they work with. Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic themselves all provide inference for Claude.

The vast majority of models on OpenRouter (both closed and open) have multiple providers.

	▲	simianwords a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Interesting. I would think they would safeguard core IP from competitors.
	▲	OJFord a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Also you might be fine with routing to a different model.

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fuckaj 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

DNS of AI