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Merge API launches Merge Gateway to help enterprises build custom model routers based on product-specific benchmarks

It prevents enterprise cost overruns from overusing frontier models

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus#1496inAI

Uber burned $3.4B in AI budget in 4 months.

Microsoft is cancelling Claude Code licenses company-wide.

The root cause is the same: no routing layer between the request and the model.

Build Your Own Router lets you match every request to the right model based on your own benchmarks. Not every prompt needs a frontier model. This is where production AI is heading.

#mergegateway, @shensi

Shensi Ding@shensi

Introducing Merge Gateway - Build Your Own Router.

You're three sprints into your coding assistant.

You pick the most hyped model, integrate, test, deploy.

A month later, a new model drops.

Now you re-test, re-integrate, re-deploy.

Your product didn't change, but the benchmark did.

That's how most AI teams operate.

Chasing a "best" defined by people who've never seen their product.

There is no best model.

There's only the right one for your product, users, and use-cases.

Build Your Own Router runs on your definition of good.

Pick your benchmarks, weigh them, add your own evals.

@merge_api routes every request to your winner.

👉$100 in credits to the first 200 people that comment

http://merge.dev/gateway

7:07 AM · May 26, 2026 · 22.6K Views

/AI8d ago

Merge API launches Merge Gateway to help enterprises build custom model routers based on product-specific benchmarks

It prevents enterprise cost overruns from overusing frontier models

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Quote posts

#1496

Original post

Chubby♨️@kimmonismus#1496inAI

Uber burned $3.4B in AI budget in 4 months.

Microsoft is cancelling Claude Code licenses company-wide.

The root cause is the same: no routing layer between the request and the model.

Build Your Own Router lets you match every request to the right model based on your own benchmarks. Not every prompt needs a frontier model. This is where production AI is heading.

#mergegateway, @shensi

Shensi Ding@shensi

Introducing Merge Gateway - Build Your Own Router.

You're three sprints into your coding assistant.

You pick the most hyped model, integrate, test, deploy.

A month later, a new model drops.

Now you re-test, re-integrate, re-deploy.

Your product didn't change, but the benchmark did.

That's how most AI teams operate.

Chasing a "best" defined by people who've never seen their product.

There is no best model.

There's only the right one for your product, users, and use-cases.

Build Your Own Router runs on your definition of good.

Pick your benchmarks, weigh them, add your own evals.

@merge_api routes every request to your winner.

👉$100 in credits to the first 200 people that comment

http://merge.dev/gateway

7:07 AM · May 26, 2026 · 22.6K Views

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Carlos E. Perez@IntuitMachine

Uber and Microsoft burned through their annual budget in just a quarter. The future of sustainable and economical AI development will be dependent on robust AI routing technology. Merge Gateway gas a refreshing and promising take on this! #mergegateway, @shensi

Shensi Ding@shensi

Introducing Merge Gateway - Build Your Own Router.

You're three sprints into your coding assistant.

You pick the most hyped model, integrate, test, deploy.

A month later, a new model drops.

Now you re-test, re-integrate, re-deploy.

Your product didn't change, but the benchmark did.

That's how most AI teams operate.

Chasing a "best" defined by people who've never seen their product.

There is no best model.

There's only the right one for your product, users, and use-cases.

Build Your Own Router runs on your definition of good.

Pick your benchmarks, weigh them, add your own evals.

@merge_api routes every request to your winner.

👉$100 in credits to the first 200 people that comment

http://merge.dev/gateway

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Original post

Chubby♨️@kimmonismus#1496inAI

Uber burned $3.4B in AI budget in 4 months.

Microsoft is cancelling Claude Code licenses company-wide.

The root cause is the same: no routing layer between the request and the model.

Build Your Own Router lets you match every request to the right model based on your own benchmarks. Not every prompt needs a frontier model. This is where production AI is heading.

#mergegateway, @shensi

Shensi Ding@shensi

Introducing Merge Gateway - Build Your Own Router.

You're three sprints into your coding assistant.

You pick the most hyped model, integrate, test, deploy.

A month later, a new model drops.

Now you re-test, re-integrate, re-deploy.

Your product didn't change, but the benchmark did.

That's how most AI teams operate.

Chasing a "best" defined by people who've never seen their product.

There is no best model.

There's only the right one for your product, users, and use-cases.

Build Your Own Router runs on your definition of good.

Pick your benchmarks, weigh them, add your own evals.

@merge_api routes every request to your winner.

👉$100 in credits to the first 200 people that comment

http://merge.dev/gateway

7:07 AM · May 26, 2026 · 22.6K Views