They used a closed list of 3 vendors in prioritized order, and got 429ed out of two of them, while the third one stopped serving the mode.
This is less of a problem if you're running an agent locally and routing your problem to OpenRouter - you can pin to one or two models for consistency and just switch models when something goes bad. But the article is specifically about production traffic.
They used a closed list of 3 vendors in prioritized order, and got 429ed out of two of them, while the third one stopped serving the mode.
This is less of a problem if you're running an agent locally and routing your problem to OpenRouter - you can pin to one or two models for consistency and just switch models when something goes bad. But the article is specifically about production traffic.