ElseLane
AI API that auto-fails over between LLM providers so your app keeps answering
ElseLane is a prompt-only API: you POST a prompt with no model picker, it classifies the task type, routes to a provider chain tuned for that type, and automatically fails over to the next provider if the primary errors, times out, or trips its circuit breaker. It's OpenAI-compatible via /v1/chat/completions with model:"auto", bills prepaid credits at estimated provider cost times 1.10 — a transparent 10% markup, no surprise invoices — and doesn't store prompts or responses, only usage metadata for billing. Every response also reports which provider and model actually answered and whether failover ran.
What holds up
- +Automatic provider failover — a stuck request retries the next lane on its own
- +Transparent 10% markup on provider cost, ×1.10 — no hidden fees in the invoice
- +OpenAI-compatible endpoint — drop in model:"auto" without rewriting your client
- +Prompts and responses aren't stored, only metadata for billing and debugging
Mind the limits
- −No model choice for day-to-day calls — you don't pick which LLM answers
- −10% platform fee on every credit — cheaper to call providers directly without failover
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