Hot swapping models due to demand? Good ideas on solutions?
I have a product I’m working on where I want the cheapest fastest model to do a single thing (OCR) and was mostly just using Gemini 2.0 lite. Thing is, when developing last night and it appeared to be degraded and was giving me 400-500 responses. I am not super picky on model usage, Gemini, Gemini lite, mistral 3.1 small, any will do the singular task I want. Does OpenRouter or some other service exist to balance responses between model providers? Ideally give a priority (on price) but have fall backs if failures or higher latency occur? I’d rather pay a few cents more per thousands of requests than have a key feature go dark.
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…literally the first page of the open router docs:
OpenRouter provides a unified API that gives you access to hundreds of AI models through a single endpoint, while automatically handling fallbacks and selecting the most cost-effective options....
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…literally the first page of the open router docs:
OpenRouter provides a unified API that gives you access to hundreds of AI models through a single endpoint, while automatically handling fallbacks and selecting the most cost-effective options.
Probably what I need.
Yep, this is what I need… I really should google before asking. But I think asking “Rubber ducky’d” me into the right question to ask