Nadir & Alternatives

Nadir & Alternatives: How we built it, and the honest comparisons. 14 field notes from the engineers shipping Nadir's LLM routing layer.

Posts in Nadir & Alternatives

• How to Reduce LLM API Costs by 60% Without Losing Quality (2026-07-14)
• One Turn Through Nadir (2026-10-20)
• LiteLLM vs Nadir: Free Gateway, Priced Decision (2026-08-29)
• The Fifth Lane (2026-08-19)
• OpenRouter vs Nadir: Paying for Access, or Paying for Outcomes (2026-07-22)
• vLLM Semantic Router vs Nadir: Build the Routing Layer, or Buy the Outcome (2026-07-16)
• 48% Off, Plus a Platform Team (2026-07-05)
• Save Twice (2026-07-05)
• Fine-Tune or Route (2026-06-24)
• OCR: our new closed-loop routing algorithm (2026-04-04)
• Context Optimize saved 61% of input tokens on Claude Opus (2026-03-20)
• Why we built Nadir: the $0.45 docstring problem (2026-03-15)
• How our binary classifier routes prompts in 50ms (2026-03-10)
• Nadir vs always-premium: when to use which (2026-03-05)

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