Production workloads should not carry single points of failure
Provider fluctuations should not become business interruptions. From availability and model choice to changing prices, production applications need an alternative route they can take at any time, not one provider they always depend on.
One outage can disrupt your product
Even established providers experience outages, rate limits, and slowdowns. Without an alternative route, an upstream issue can make product features unavailable.
Every new model means a new integration
Providers differ in endpoint shape, keys, accounts, and billing semantics. Switching model or provider can mean rebuilding both the integration and the reconciliation.
A fixed route can cost more
Prices for the same model differ across providers and change over time. Staying with one provider can mean missing a better price elsewhere.