ftouter: an open-source Python router that auto-falls-back when free-tier LLM APIs die
Puzzleheaded_Bus925 · reddit · 2026-09-23
Tired of free-tier LLM APIs (Groq, OpenRouter, Mistral) silently breaking side projects via rate limits, deprecations, or removals, the author open-sourced ftouter — a Python package that sits between your app and multiple providers, automatically falls back to the next available model on failure, and returns readable failure reasons (rate limited, deprecated, bad key, server error) instead of raw tracebacks. Early stage, supports Groq/OpenRouter/Mistral, available on GitHub and PyPI.
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