guides
Route Requests Automatically for Better Performance
Send every LLM call to the fastest healthy provider and fail over automatically — lower tail latency and fewer outages, with no manual failover code to maintain.
Sugumar
6 minPosts
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Buyer's Guide
LLM gateway buyer's guide 2026: routing, guardrails, evals, prompt management
Eight axes that actually matter when picking an LLM gateway in 2026. Shortlist matrix across OpenRouter, Portkey, Helicone, nRouter. Decision tree by buyer profile, 90-minute evaluation.
nRouter team
14 min
Engineering
LLM Routing for AI Agent Pipelines — A Production Guide
How to structure LLM routing across multi-step agent pipelines: choosing models per task type, handling failures mid-chain, and tracking cost per agent run using a managed gateway.
Nemo Team
10 min