OpenRouter is down
20 comments
·August 28, 2025vintagedave
SamLeBarbare
OpenRouter: eliminating Single Points of Failure… by introducing a beautifully centralized one.
lordofgibbons
Their uptime is still infinitely better than any single provider though.
sokoloff
infinitely?
drclegg
To be fair, it is still useful on this front; it's much faster than waiting for requests to fail and fallback to a backup yourself.
You still need another backup provider or two for cases like this though.
logicchains
>One of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes.
Only if you're using a model hosted by multiple providers (e.g. an open model).
gkbrk
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.
OJFord
Also you might be fine with routing to a different model.
simianwords
Interesting. I would think they would safeguard core IP from competitors.
thevinchi
Interesting timing. I was just reading about a new self-hosted router [1] today. Now I’ll definitely need to check it out.
gitmagic
Been down for ~50 minutes now and there's no information other than the automated notice on their status page.
blitzar
Can someone power it off and back on again please?
lvl155
How can a router be down this long? I would have to reconsider using them moving forward.
gitmagic
I'm mostly concerned about their lack of communication. Would have been nice to know that they are looking into it and an ETA.
jug
Should be coming up now.
rvz
Looking forward to the postmortem.
null
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.
The post-mortem will be worth watching.