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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.
Sugumar
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.

Checking a balance after a call is too late under concurrency. Here is the reserve-and-settle pattern NemoRouter uses to make credit caps exact, even when thousands of requests race for the last dollar.

When a provider 5xxs or rate-limits you, your app shouldn't go down with it. Here is how fallback chains on an LLM gateway reroute to a healthy provider mid-request — without changing your code.