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  "@id": "https://www.requesty.ai/data/policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026",
  "id": "policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026",
  "slug": "policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026",
  "title": "Policy vs direct eventual success rate, January to October 2026",
  "shortTitle": "Policy vs direct success",
  "topic": "reliability",
  "abstract": "Do routing policies make LLM requests more reliable? In October 2026, 97.8% of requests sent through a Requesty routing policy eventually succeeded, against 95.5% of direct requests. The gap was widest in August at 7.8 points.",
  "whyItMatters": "A policy retries a failed request on another provider. Direct requests have no fallback, so every upstream incident reaches the customer.",
  "questions": [
    "Do LLM fallbacks improve reliability?",
    "How much more reliable are routing policies?",
    "What is the eventual success rate of LLM requests?"
  ],
  "period": "Jan 2026 to Oct 2026",
  "updated": "2026-11-11",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "caveats": [
    "Eventual success is computed per request across all attempts. Billing rejections (402) are excluded.",
    "January to April were recomputed in November 2026 and can differ slightly from the April note."
  ],
  "keyFindings": [
    "July: policy 98.3%, direct 96.8%.",
    "August: policy 97.8%, direct 90.0%.",
    "September: policy 98.3%, direct 90.4%.",
    "October: policy 97.8%, direct 95.5%."
  ],
  "columns": [
    {
      "key": "month",
      "label": "Month",
      "unit": "count"
    },
    {
      "key": "policy",
      "label": "Policy - eventual success",
      "unit": "percent"
    },
    {
      "key": "direct",
      "label": "Direct - eventual success",
      "unit": "percent"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "month": "January",
      "policy": 0.97503,
      "direct": 0.94907
    },
    {
      "month": "February",
      "policy": 0.98718,
      "direct": 0.97598
    },
    {
      "month": "March",
      "policy": 0.98552,
      "direct": 0.87621
    },
    {
      "month": "April",
      "policy": 0.99245,
      "direct": 0.86155
    },
    {
      "month": "May",
      "policy": 0.98602,
      "direct": 0.96443
    },
    {
      "month": "June",
      "policy": 0.98138,
      "direct": 0.95258
    },
    {
      "month": "July",
      "policy": 0.98301,
      "direct": 0.9677
    },
    {
      "month": "August",
      "policy": 0.97788,
      "direct": 0.90025
    },
    {
      "month": "September",
      "policy": 0.98279,
      "direct": 0.90383
    },
    {
      "month": "October",
      "policy": 0.97795,
      "direct": 0.95518
    }
  ],
  "rowKey": "month",
  "citation": {
    "apa": "Requesty (2026). Policy vs direct eventual success rate, January to October 2026. Requesty Data. https://www.requesty.ai/data/policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026",
    "bibtex": "@misc{requesty_policy_eventual_success_trend_jan_october_2026,\n  author       = {{Requesty}},\n  title        = {Policy vs direct eventual success rate, January to October 2026},\n  year         = {2026},\n  howpublished = {\\url{https://www.requesty.ai/data/policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026}},\n  note         = {Requesty Data}\n}"
  },
  "permalink": "https://www.requesty.ai/data/policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026",
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    "markdown": "https://www.requesty.ai/data/policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026.md"
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  "citedIn": [],
  "image": "https://www.requesty.ai/data/policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026/opengraph-image",
  "source": {
    "organization": "Requesty",
    "url": "https://www.requesty.ai"
  }
}