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So you want to use OpenRouter?

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A blog post discusses OpenRouter, a service that routes an API request to an available backend model, advertising automatic fallbacks and cost-effective selection for each request.

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“So you want to use OpenRouter? One of OpenRouter's selling points is that it "handles fallbacks automatically and picks the most cost-effective option for each request", so you can call a single API endpoint for a model and get routed to the best available…”
Simon Willison's Weblog, 11 Sept 2026, 22:49.

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