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Ship the AI feature.
Not the infrastructure.

Field notes on LLM gateways, multi-provider routing, automatic failover, and shipping AI in production — from the team building the gateway.

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The hidden cost of calling AI providers directly

When you wire your product straight into OpenAI — or Anthropic, or Gemini — the cost looks obvious. It’s the number at the bottom of the monthly invoice. You can see it,

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