Routing

Portkey Gateway for tokenmaxxing

Model routing plus guardrails is the grown-up version of tokenmaxxing: pick the right route, then keep the call inside policy.

12.3K starsPortkey-AI/gateway
1.2K forksGitHub metadata checked 2026-07-07
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What it does

An AI gateway for routing across LLMs with guardrails, provider abstraction, and an OpenAI-compatible API surface.

Why it belongs here

Model routing plus guardrails is the grown-up version of tokenmaxxing: pick the right route, then keep the call inside policy.

Best use case

Teams that want an OpenAI-compatible gateway with routing, provider abstraction, guardrails, and operational policy controls.

How to use it

Centralize model calls, define guardrails and fallbacks, and compare provider cost and latency across the same workflows.

Limits

Guardrails and routes need real policies. A gateway cannot decide quality targets or risk tolerance for the team.

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Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0 — the 1.6T model that topped OpenRouter as Owl Alpha

WinBuzzer: Meituan opened LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE coding model (~48B active per token, 1M-token context) that surfaced atop OpenRouter as the unbranded alias Owl Alpha — MIT-licensed, with weights not yet posted.

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Why Token Optimization Is a Gift to the Hyperscalers

UncoverAlpha's Rihard Jarc argues the pivot from tokenmaxxing to token optimization — routing cheap work to cheaper models — won't shrink AI bills. It multiplies token volume, and the hyperscalers renting the compute collect either way.

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Coinbase halves its AI bill with cheaper defaults, routing, and caching

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says five levers — cheaper model defaults (GLM 5.2, Kimi 2.7), task routing, caching, lean context, and spend visibility — cut the company’s AI bill roughly in half despite rising token volume.

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Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 - Anthropic

Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 (GA, with classifier safeguards) and Claude Mythos 5 (safeguards lifted, vetted partners only) on June 9 — $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output, under half the Mythos Preview price.

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