Provider Fallback: Surviving Outages Without Pages

Every major LLM provider had a multi-hour outage in the last twelve months. If your app calls one provider directly, you went down with them. If you have a gateway with fallback, you did not.

Why it matters

Production fallback is more than "try another endpoint". It needs capability matching (the fallback model must support the same features), prompt-template adaptation and quality monitoring.

How Bhogar AI approaches it

Bhogar AI gateway ships per-route fallback chains with capability matching, automatic template adaptation and circuit breakers that route around degraded providers without flapping.

• Per-route fallback chains
• Capability matching (function calling, vision, JSON mode)
• Prompt-template adaptation across providers
• Circuit breakers per provider
• Status-page monitoring per provider

What you get

During the most-recent provider outages, gateway customers maintained service while direct-API customers were paged.