boldrouter

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1. 9/13/2026

   Updated: best for, features, integrations, limitations, plans, platforms, summary, walkthrough

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   bestFor

   Before: ["Users needing a single API to access a wide range of LLM providers with automatic routing and failover for reliability and cost efficiency."]

   After: ["Users needing a single API to access multiple LLM providers with automatic routing and failover for reliability and cost efficiency."]

   features

   Before: ["Unified OpenAI-compatible API supporting full /v1/chat/completions with streaming, tools, and multimodal pass-through without SDK changes.","Smart routing and failover that routes requests by price, latency, or uptime and automatically fails over when a provider is down or rate-limited.","Token-accurate metering that counts usage from the stream, handles interrupted requests, and reconciles against provider numbers for billing.","Scoped API keys with per-key spend limits, live usage monitoring, and the ability to issue, scope, and revoke keys from the dashboard.","Usage analytics providing per-key and per-model spend, tokens, latency, and price comparison across the model catalog."]

   After: ["Unified OpenAI-compatible API supporting full /v1/chat/completions with streaming, tools, and multimodal pass-through without SDK changes.","Smart routing and failover that routes requests by price, latency, or uptime and automatically fails over when a provider is down or rate-limited.","One prepaid balance for credits that can be spent at provider list price with a small fee on top-ups and one consolidated bill across all providers.","Token-accurate metering that counts usage from the stream, handles interrupted requests, and reconciles against provider numbers.","Scoped API keys that can be issued, scoped, revoked, and have per-key spend limits and live usage monitoring from the dashboard."]

   integrations

   Before: []

   After: ["Integrates with major LLM providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Perplexity, Z.ai, MiniMax, NVIDIA, and Qwen."]

   limitations

   Before: []

   After: ["No per-token markup but a 5% fee applies on credit top-ups."]

   plans

   Before: []

   After: [{"name":"Enterprise","note":"Contact the provider for a quote.","annual":null,"monthly":null,"perSeat":false,"currency":"USD","features":[],"extraUnit":null,"unitLabel":"","maximumSeats":null,"minimumSeats":1,"includedUnits":null,"startingPrice":false,"seatsConfirmed":false}]

   platforms

   Before: []

   After: ["Accessible via any OpenAI SDK by changing the base URL to https://boldrouter.com/v1 and using the Boldrouter API key."]

   summary

   Before: "Boldrouter is a unified API gateway compatible with OpenAI that routes requests to multiple major large language model providers through a single endpoint and API key. It offers automatic routing, failover, prepaid billing, and usage analytics while maintaining full privacy and low latency."

   After: "Boldrouter is a unified API gateway compatible with OpenAI that routes requests to multiple major large language model providers through a single endpoint and API key. It offers automatic routing, failover, and consolidated billing with full privacy and low added latency."

   walkthrough

   Before: ["Normalize the OpenAI-format request once at the edge for parsing and validation.","Route the request to the best provider based on price, latency, and live health.","Translate the request to the provider's native format including system prompts, tools, and multimodal blocks.","Stream deltas back as OpenAI chunks while counting tokens for billing."]

   After: ["Normalize the OpenAI-format request once at the edge to parse and validate it.","Route the request to the best provider based on price, latency, and live health.","Translate the request to the provider's native format including system prompts, tools, and multimodal blocks.","Stream deltas back as OpenAI chunks while counting tokens for billing."]