---
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"
topic: reliability
period: Jan 2026 to Oct 2026
updated: 2026-11-11
license: CC BY 4.0
canonical: https://www.requesty.ai/data/policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026
---

# Policy vs direct eventual success rate, January to October 2026

> 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.

*Topic: Reliability and ops. Period: Jan 2026 to Oct 2026. Last updated 2026-11-11.*

## Why it matters

A policy retries a failed request on another provider. Direct requests have no fallback, so every upstream incident reaches the customer.

## Questions this answers

- Do LLM fallbacks improve reliability?
- How much more reliable are routing policies?
- What is the eventual success rate of LLM requests?

## Key findings

1. July: policy 98.3%, direct 96.8%.
2. August: policy 97.8%, direct 90.0%.
3. September: policy 98.3%, direct 90.4%.
4. October: policy 97.8%, direct 95.5%.

## Data

| Month | Policy - eventual success (percent) | Direct - eventual success (percent) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| January | 97.50% | 94.91% |
| February | 98.72% | 97.60% |
| March | 98.55% | 87.62% |
| April | 99.25% | 86.16% |
| May | 98.60% | 96.44% |
| June | 98.14% | 95.26% |
| July | 98.30% | 96.77% |
| August | 97.79% | 90.03% |
| September | 98.28% | 90.38% |
| October | 97.80% | 95.52% |

## 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.

## Cite as

**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,
  author       = {{Requesty}},
  title        = {Policy vs direct eventual success rate, January to October 2026},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.requesty.ai/data/policy-eventual-success-trend-jan-october-2026}},
  note         = {Requesty Data}
}
```

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