Openrouter Is Down

The OpenRouter platform, touted for its ability to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes, is currently experiencing an outage, sparking debate about its reliability. While some commenters, like vintagedave, express concern about the implications for uptime-critical projects, others, like gkbrk, point out that OpenRouter's redundancy across multiple providers - including Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock, and Anthropic - can still provide a backup even for closed models like Claude. The discussion highlights the tension between the desire for transparency during outages and the potential for alarming status messages, with some commenters, like rozenmd, preferring the current understated approach to a falsely reassuring "All Systems Operational" notice. As the community awaits a post-mortem analysis, the incident raises important questions about the reliability and safeguards of AI infrastructure providers.

Snapshot generated from the HN discussion