[vintagedave]

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.

[SamLeBarbare]

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

[lordofgibbons]

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

[sokoloff]

infinitely?

[phh]

Well in FP4

[drbscl]

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.

[logicchains]

>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).

[gkbrk]

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]

Interesting. I would think they would safeguard core IP from competitors.

[OJFord]

Also you might be fine with routing to a different model.

[fuckaj]

DNS of AI