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The open source AI gateway.

One API key for every model: hosted providers, your own keys, your own GPUs. Routing, access control, and attribution for everything your agents call.

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POST api.routerlab.buzz/v1

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TRUNK GROUP · FABLE LANE OFF TICKET · DEMO BOARD Northwind Ops 348,112 req · p50 412ms $3,611.40 August demo · not a live customer
Spend board ● live demo
Model Route ctx 30d tokens spend
sonnet-class hosted → backup 200K 38.1M $1,942
gpt-class openai → azure 128K 24.6M $1,118
gpt-class-mini hosted 128K 14.3M $486
gemini-flash google 1M 11.2M $96
haiku-class hosted 200K 9.8M $88
glm-class your key 128K 6.1M $34
qwen-27b your gpus · local 128K 31.4M $0.00
Spend · August demo$3,611.40
By agentsupport $1,904 · research $1,212 · triage $495

Attribution

Spend by agent, person, model, or day. Every call tagged to the key that made it.

Dashboard

Usage, spend, requests, TTFT, and token counts at key and team scope.

Request logs

Follow traffic live; open one request to see how it routed and what it cost.

Pass-through

Pay provider prices, never a cent more.

Every request itemized, every price passed straight through. The platform line never moves.

Northwind Ops August · demo
Anthropic$2,030.00
OpenAI$1,118.00
Pooled credits$367.40
Google$96.00
Your GPUs$0.00
Platform fee$0.00
Total$3,611.40

Give your whole company every model.

One API and one login, scoped by team or key. We handle key management, new models land on day zero, and your own fine-tuned and self-hosted models sit behind the same key.

We support your model OpenAI Anthropic Gemini Meta Qwen GLM Kimi DeepSeek Mistral Your APIs Local Bedrock Azure AI Foundry Fireworks Modal Google

Optimize for quality, speed, and cost.

Quality: the provider serving the model at full precision wins. Same model, every route. The dial changes who answers first.

  • picked
    Anthropic · your key
    native fp16
    $15.00 / M · p50 310ms
  • standby
    Bedrock · pooled account
    native
    $14.20 / M · p50 240ms
  • standby
    Pooled credits
    mixed hosts
    $13.80 / M · p50 610ms

A degraded provider never becomes an outage.

If the picked provider throttles, the request fails over down the waterfall and the same model answers. Capacity errors only — rate limits and outages, never a silent swap onto something else.

  • 01 Anthropic · your key 429 rate limited
  • 02 Bedrock · pooled account 200 ok · same model
  • 03 Pooled credits standby

Pooled accounts

Rate limits are absorbed across provider accounts before a request ever waits.

Same model, every route

Failover changes who serves the model, not which model answers.

Order is config

Every model has an ordered provider chain; replace it with one API call, no deploy. Org overrides win over the default.

Per-model chains

One model can prefer your key while another rides pooled capacity: each rung has its own provider, region, and lane.

PUT /api/models/{id}/waterfall · org override

One place for every model credential.

Provider keys live at the gateway. People and agents get scoped gateway keys, managed like any other resource.

Name Kind Models Budget Key
support-agent agent sonnet-class · haiku-class $60 / day
sk-rlb-••••3f2a
maya@northwind person all models $500 / mo
sk-rlb-••••91c4
intern-key person haiku-class only $25 / wk
sk-rlb-••••b7e0
triage agent qwen-27b · local $40 / day
sk-rlb-••••52d8

One key per caller

Every person, agent, and tool gets its own key, revocable on its own. Create, view, and delete from the dashboard or the API.

Scoped keys

Provider keys stay at the gateway; callers only ever hold scoped gateway keys. Model allowlists: what is off a key’s list never runs.

Stable names

Your code calls one alias. Point it at a new provider, revision, or your own model — every caller moves at once. Dev and prod can be separate names.

Budgets that enforce

Requests stop at the cap, not after it. A capped key pauses and says so; spend never runs past what you set.

Make your AI better, faster, cheaper.

The gateway routes. The intelligence layer improves what flows through it.

01 → right model

The right model

We watch your traffic and tell you when a switch wins, including new models the day they ship. Turnkey per-prompt optimization, if you want it.

02 → caching

Caching

We catch opportunities to improve cache hit rate, and show what they would save. Repeated tokens come back cheaper when you turn it on.

03 → a model you own

A model you own

Fine-tuned on your traffic, proved before it serves, and reached through the same endpoint. You turn it on; it never happens on its own.

Enterprise posture

Secure by policy.

Where a request may go is gateway policy, set once for the whole team.

Zero Data Retention routing

Route only to providers under ZDR agreements. Enforce it team-wide or per request.

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No training on your data

Route only to providers that will not train on customer data. Configurable per request.

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Provider allowlist

Restrict your team to approved providers. Enforced on every request, no code changes.

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Keys never leave the gateway

Agents hold scoped gateway keys. Provider keys attach at the gateway and never reach them.

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Set controls

Org-wide limits. Hard stops at the cap: per key, per team, or org-wide. Owner, admin, member, and viewer roles built in.

See everything

Usage API and dashboard observability: spend and usage by agent, person, model, or day. Search request logs and open one to see how it routed.

Point your agent here.

Paste the coding-agent prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex and it wires the endpoint. Prefer to wire it yourself? The curl, JavaScript, and Python tabs are one call away.

# Router Lab hosted gateway
# Dashboard: platform.routerlab.buzz
# API:       https://api.routerlab.buzz/v1
# Paste into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.

Ask me for my email. Create a Router Lab account for that
exact address. Store the gateway key as ROUTERLAB_API_KEY.
Never invent an email or a key.

Wire OpenAI-compatible clients to
  base_url = "https://api.routerlab.buzz/v1"
  api_key  = ROUTERLAB_API_KEY

Then GET /v1/models (does not spend). Do not make a paid
completion until I say so. BYOK pass-through is unaffected.

OpenAI-compatible. Same shapes for Chat Completions and Responses. Streaming passes straight through. Error bodies name the problem and the recovery.

One endpoint from here.

Point your agents at api.routerlab.buzz/v1 and everything else follows.

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