Hi folks -- I'm Chris from OpenRouter. This one hurts. We're back, but our database was down for about 45 minutes, which caused user and credit lookups to fail, and took down the API. We are investigating why, and of course going to look into improving durability so this failure mode can't happen again. We will share a post-mortem on the site when we have finished our investigation. I'm sorry to our users who count on us.
One of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes. I was considering using it for an uptime-critical project of mine.
Nope, for closed models too. Claude for example has multiple providers they work with. Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic themselves all provide inference for Claude.
The vast majority of models on OpenRouter (both closed and open) have multiple providers.
FYI, they (oddly enough) communicate mostly through Discord, and they have said they are investigating the issue at 10:30am UTC - 13 minutes after the first user reports.
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https://github.com/felixszeto/NiceAPI
The post-mortem will be worth watching.
You still need another backup provider or two for cases like this though.
Only if you're using a model hosted by multiple providers (e.g. an open model).
The vast majority of models on OpenRouter (both closed and open) have multiple providers.
red: "datacenter has been subject to multiple nuclear strikes. next update in 30 min"
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