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2026

38 posts

Jev, week two: 1,316 posts, four gateways giving it away, and an open weight clone…

TypeSafe Jev explained: how it works, LLM differences and API pricing

How to use open source models with Langdock

Which of the smartest models can you run inside the EU, and what is the residency premium?

EU routing is two layers, not one: the questions legal, engineering and procurement are…

Claude in the EU: 47 region deployments, one quota wall, and how to fail over without…

Every agent uses the same key: why shared credentials break spend attribution and what to…

One in ten exposed LiteLLM gateways still answers to sk-1234: your AI gateway is a tier…

Why AI gateways should be built in Go: a language audit of every major gateway

Cheapest LLM API Prices Compared (2026): Provider by Provider Cost Guide

$1.8k before anyone noticed: how to cap runaway agent spend

OpenRouter Is Down? How to Fail Over to a Backup Provider in 2 Minutes

OpenRouter Rate Limits: Why They Happen and How Multi Provider Fallback Fixes Them

Do provider native tools still work through an LLM gateway?

When AI works: Monday is its busiest day, weekends run at a third, and only 1 in 4…

Why Traditional Latency Routing Fails and How We Fixed It With One Formula

Best AI Agent SDKs Compared (2026): LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google ADK

Best AI Coding Model (2026): Benchmarks, Cost, and Real World Performance

Best LLM Routing Platforms Compared (2026): Requesty, Portkey, LiteLLM, OpenRouter, and…

MCP Gateway Comparison (2026): Enterprise Scalability, Security, and Tool Governance

LiteLLM vs Portkey vs OpenRouter vs Requesty: Best LLM Gateway and Router in 2026

AI Agent Cost Optimization: How to Cut LLM Spend by 80% with Routing

The context window is the new battleground: we now feed AI 19 tokens for every 1 it…

Loop Engineering: How to Build AI Agent Loops That Run Themselves

OpenRouter in Europe: Why EU Teams Are Switching to an EU-Hosted AI Gateway

EU AI Compliance in 2026: The 7 Regulations Every Enterprise Now Has to Answer For

The Rise of the Agent Operating System

Structured Outputs Across LLM Providers: 244 Models Tested (2026)

LLM Observability in Production: The Metrics That Actually Matter

Alternatives to OpenAI for high volume workloads

How to route LLM requests by cost and latency

Vendor agnostic AI gateway options in 2026

Give every team exactly the models they need (and nothing more)

EU Compliant AI Routing: Why Your LLM Gateway Needs to Be GDPR and EU AI Act Ready

Agent Harness: Why Your LLM Gateway Is the Backbone of Production Agents

Multi Agent Orchestration Patterns That Actually Work in Production

Designing fallback retries: why Requesty uses 500ms → 4s with jitter

Routing policies 101: fallback, load balancing, and latency in production

2025

42 posts

AI Agent Reliability: Why It Matters and How to Get It Right

Exploring MCP Gateways (2025): Find the best MCP for you

15 Best OpenAI Alternatives in 2025 (Tested & Compared)

API-First vs UI-First Gateways: Which UX Boosts Dev Velocity?

Build vs Buy: Open-Source Routers (LiteLLM, Helicone) vs Requesty SaaS

Case Study: How E-commerce Chatbots Scale to Black Friday Traffic with Requesty

Case Study: How FinTechs Are Revolutionizing KYC Automation on HIPAA-Ready Gateways

Cross-Provider Caching Deep Dive: Maximize Performance Across Your Stack

Edge Deployments: Running Requesty Behind Cloudflare Workers

Glossary of LLM Gateway Terminology (2025 Edition)

How LLM Gateways Slash AI Spend by up to 80%

LLM Gateway 101: Everything You Need to Know in 2025

LLM Gateway vs Direct API Calls: Benchmarking Latency & Uptime

Prompt Engineering Best Practices When You Use a Gateway

Rate-Limiting, Retries & 429s: Bullet-Proofing Your AI Pipeline

Security & Compliance Checklist: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR for LLM Gateways

Self-Hosting Requesty on Kubernetes: The Complete Helm Deployment Guide

Smart Routing Demystified: Choosing the Fastest-Cheapest Model per Request

Solving Provider Outages: Real-World Failover War Stories

The Complete Guide to LLM Gateways: Why Your AI Applications Need One

The Future of LLM Routing: On-device, Edge AI, and Federated Models

Top 25 LLMs You Can Route Through One API: Claude, GPT, Gemini, and More

Top 7 Smart-Routing Strategies (with YAML/JSON Examples)

Top LLM Gateways in 2025: Why Requesty Sits Unrivalled at #1

Troubleshooting Guide: 10 Common Gateway Integration Errors

Ultimate ROI Calculator: Estimate Savings When Switching to Requesty

Requesty vs OpenRouter: A Comparison on the Unified LLM Platform

Secure AI with Guardrails: How Requesty Protects Your Enterprise Workflows

Using Claude 3.5 vs. Claude 3.7 in Roo Code or Cline

OpenWebUI vs LibreChat (2026): Which Self-Hosted ChatGPT UI Is Right for You?

Intelligent LLM Routing in Enterprise AI: Uptime, Cost Efficiency, and Model Selection

Why Enterprise Companies use Requesty for AI Access

Maximize AI Efficiency: How Prompt Caching Cuts Costs by Up to a Staggering 90%

Building Reliable AI Applications: How Requesty Helps Developers Save Time and Cut Costs

How to Customize Your System Prompt in the Requesty UI

Handling LLM Platform Outages: What to Do When OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, or Others Go…

Implementing Zero-Downtime LLM Architecture: Beyond Basic Fallbacks

LLM API Rate Limits (2026): OpenAI, Anthropic & DeepSeek RPM and TPM by Tier

Savings in Your AI Prompts: How We Reduced Token Usage by Up to 10%

Switching LLM Providers: Why It’s Harder Than It Seems

Bypass Claude Sonnet Rate limits with Requesty + Cline

What is LLM Routing?

2024

1 post

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