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Route Requests Automatically for Better Performance
Send every LLM call to the fastest healthy provider and fail over automatically — lower tail latency and fewer outages, with no manual failover code to maintain.
Murugesh
6 min
Send every LLM call to the fastest healthy provider and fail over automatically — lower tail latency and fewer outages, with no manual failover code to maintain.

Eight axes that actually matter when picking an LLM gateway in 2026. Shortlist matrix across OpenRouter, Portkey, Helicone, NemoRouter. Decision tree by buyer profile, 90-minute evaluation.

How to structure LLM routing across multi-step agent pipelines: choosing models per task type, handling failures mid-chain, and tracking cost per agent run using a managed gateway.