Manifest announced the deprecation of its LLM router, joining a wave of projects that are either folding or pivoting. The move signals that the early hype around universal model dispatchers is giving way to more focus…

The Manifest blog post titled Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours admits that the team will stop maintaining the service.[^1] No new code will be merged, and existing users are urged to migrate to oth…

RouteLLM provides a lightweight OpenAI‑compatible server that swaps between a strong model and a weaker, cheaper one.[^3] The repository shows a default pairing of gpt-4-1106-preview with anyscale/mistralai/Mixtral-8x…

The framework also supports local models and custom routing strategies via a simple CLI flag syntax.[^3] Users can launch the server, point any OpenAI client at it, and let the router decide which backend to call.[^3]…