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A gateway gains automatic failover: when the primary model provider returns 5xx or 429 the request is retried against a second provider. On paper, availability rises from 99.5% to better than 99.99%. What has the team given up, and when does that bill arrive?

A platform routes all model calls through an internal gateway. What belongs there, and what must not?

An AI gateway now terminates streaming responses for six products and holds a semantic cache shared across tenants. Two properties of that design have caused real outages and real data exposure at large AI providers. What has the organisation taken on and when does the bill arrive?