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A comprehensive guide on implementing failover and fallback mechanisms for Large Language Models (LLMs) when using OpenRouter. This skill covers native model fallbacks, provider routing strategies, and advanced client-side fallback chains. Use this pattern when building mission-critical or highly resilient systems that must maintain service availability even if a primary model or an entire provider goes offline. It ensures robust API integration and graceful degradation.

This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough for setting up and authenticating with the OpenRouter API. It covers generating secure API keys, configuring environment variables, and initializing clients in Python and TypeScript. Learn best practices for secure integration, including key management, verification, and key rotation, ensuring reliable connectivity to various large language models (LLMs).

A comprehensive guide detailing common real-world mistakes and pitfalls when integrating with the OpenRouter API. Covers critical best practices for robust LLM deployment, including correct model ID formatting, cost control via max_tokens, secure API key management, handling rate limits, and optimizing client connection reuse. Essential for developers building multi-provider AI applications.

This skill demonstrates advanced techniques for managing high-volume API calls to LLM services via OpenRouter. It implements multi-key round-robin strategies, incorporating health checks and circuit breakers to distribute load across multiple API keys. It also covers concurrent request processing using asyncio and provider-level failover, ensuring high availability and maximizing throughput when facing rate limits.

This skill provides comprehensive tools to monitor the real-time availability, status, and performance of various large language models (LLMs) accessed via OpenRouter. It supports active health probes, catalog checks, and scheduled monitoring via Python and Bash, ensuring robust fault detection and failover logic for production systems that rely on external AI APIs.

This skill provides comprehensive methods for implementing intelligent model routing using the OpenRouter API. It allows developers to dynamically select the optimal Large Language Model (LLM) based on specific criteria: task complexity (e.g., classification, code generation), required capability (e.g., deep reasoning vs. simple Q&A), cost budget, and latency tolerance. Implement cost-aware, task-based, and complexity-based routing to maximize system efficiency and minimize operational expenses when building multi-model applications.

This skill provides comprehensive best practices and Python code examples for optimizing API calls to Large Language Models (LLMs) via OpenRouter. It covers benchmarking model latency, implementing streaming to achieve low Time-To-First-Token (TTFT), and processing requests concurrently using asynchronous programming (asyncio). Use this when developing real-time, high-throughput applications that require predictable and fast model responses.

A comprehensive guide on handling API rate limits and throttling errors (429) when building high-throughput systems, particularly for LLM APIs like OpenRouter. This skill covers best practices, including using exponential backoff, implementing custom client-side rate limiters (Token Bucket), and managing concurrent requests for stable, reliable performance.

This skill provides comprehensive reference architectures for building production-grade AI applications using OpenRouter as a unified LLM gateway. It covers three scaling patterns: simple single-service, standard microservice (with caching and budget enforcement), and enterprise event-driven systems (with message queues and workers). Use this when planning system design, reviewing complex AI pipelines, or ensuring scalability and cost control in your LLM integration.

This skill implements a sophisticated, config-driven rules engine for OpenRouter API calls. It dynamically determines the optimal large language model (LLM) by evaluating a comprehensive context, including user subscription tier, remaining cost budget, specific task type (code, chat), required tools, and latency requirements. This is essential for building production-grade, cost-aware, and robust LLM orchestration systems.

This comprehensive guide provides developers with step-by-step instructions for migrating applications from direct calls to proprietary Large Language Model (LLM) APIs (such as OpenAI or Anthropic) to utilizing the unified OpenRouter gateway. It details essential code changes, including updating base URLs, managing API keys, adding custom headers, and correctly prefixing model identifiers. This ensures a seamless transition, enabling multi-model compatibility and simplified API management.

This guide details the process of migrating search and LLM functionalities from legacy APIs (Google CSE, Bing, SerpAPI) to Perplexity Sonar. It demonstrates how to utilize the Strangler Fig pattern to build a robust adapter layer. The primary benefit is consolidating a complex, multi-step pipeline (Search -> Raw Results -> LLM Summarization) into a single, efficient API call, ensuring automatic citation handling and streamlined development.