What happens when a provider fails

A gateway earns its place on the bad days. This is the mechanism, described plainly, not a status page, and not a service level agreement.

No published SLA during early access

Start with what this page is not. Runix Router is in early access, and there is no published SLA, no uptime percentage and no historical availability chart — because publishing one would mean standing behind a number we have not operated long enough to promise. What follows is how the system behaves, which is a different and more useful claim.

Failure is expected, so it is designed for

Model providers degrade. They rate-limit, they time out, they return errors in bursts, and they have bad hours that have nothing to do with your code. A router that simply forwards requests passes every one of those through to your users.

Why the key matters here

Failover is only safe if the alternative is one you would have chosen. Routing preferences are set per key server-side — cheapest acceptable, latency-first, provider allowlists — so when the router moves a request, it moves it inside the boundary you defined rather than to whatever happened to be up.

What you can verify yourself

Every response carries a request id, and errors use a structured envelope, so a failure can be traced to a specific call rather than argued about. The Router quickstart documents the error shape and the failover semantics in full.

What is not here yet

A continuously updated public status feed is not live. When it is, it will report measured availability rather than an aspiration. Until then, the honest answer to "what is your uptime" is that we will tell you what we have measured for your workload, and we will not quote a number we cannot evidence. If reliability guarantees are a procurement requirement for you, say so during intake and we will tell you plainly whether early access fits.

Reliability requirements to check against

If availability guarantees are part of your procurement, bring them to the intake. We will tell you plainly whether early access fits, before you spend time on an evaluation.

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