Multi-Provider LLM Strategy for Mid-Market SaaS Companies
Intelligent request routing through a single gateway cuts LLM costs by 30 to 50 percent.
Unannounced model swaps in routing layers hide costs, quality drops, and compliance risks.
Intelligent request routing through a single gateway cuts LLM costs by 30 to 50 percent.
A gateway layer can unify caching across providers with different implementations.
Vendor SLAs measure uptime, not whether your LLM system actually works.
Latency splits into three metrics, and routing decisions fail when teams measure the wrong one.
A central gateway eliminates duplicated retry logic across services.
Balances cost, speed, and quality as simultaneous signals rather than competing priorities.
Sessions, traces, and spans let you see exactly where LLM systems actually fail.
One API consolidates dozens of LLM providers into a unified control layer.
Gateway-layer observability reveals cross-provider costs and failures before they happen, not after.
A gateway layer handles rate limits the tier structure won't, through queuing and smart routing.
Proxies move traffic; gateways enforce who gets to send it and under what rules.