You.com Launches Enterprise Inference Router with 99.9% SLA

On October 23, You.com founder and CEO Richard Socher announced Inference Router, an enterprise LLM inference service. Socher positions it as filling a market gap: dedicated hosts offer strong guarantees but low flexibility, while aggregators are flexible but lack production-grade assurances—Inference Router aims to deliver both.

Confirmed

• 99.9%+ uptime SLA with service credits
• Zero data retention on all model calls and web search requests; data 100% US-resident
• Multi-provider failover with no platform fees
• Models and built-in web search co-located, claiming 15% lower latency
• OpenAI API-compatible—switch by changing one line of base URL; already integrated with DeepSeek, Kimi K3, Zhipu GLM 5.3, Alibaba Qwen3.8 Flash, Meta, and more
• Claims 75% cost reduction versus existing solutions

Why it matters

The service bundles "enterprise-grade guarantees" with "multi-model flexibility" behind a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint, leads with open-source models, and claims major cost savings—directly targeting enterprise customers migrating away from OpenAI and the like. It's another signal of intensifying competition in the inference market.

2026-10-23 ~ 2026-10-23 · 5 related posts

• You.com launches enterprise Inference Router with 99.9% SLA and zero data retention — RichardSocher · 2026-10-23
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• [source] You.com's Inference Router supports Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, Qwen3.8 Flash via one-line base URL switch — RichardSocher · 2026-10-23
• [source] You.com launches Inference Router: one-line switch to open-weight models, up to 75% cheaper — RichardSocher · 2026-10-23

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