Hi folks -- I'm Chris from OpenRouter. This one hurts. We're back, but our database was down for about 45 minutes, which caused user and credit lookups to fail, and took down the API. We are investigating why, and of course going to look into improving durability so this failure mode can't happen again. We will share a post-mortem on the site when we have finished our investigation. I'm sorry to our users who count on us.

Interesting timing. I was just reading about a new self-hosted router [1] today. Now I’ll definitely need to check it out.

https://github.com/felixszeto/NiceAPI

One of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes. I was considering using it for an uptime-critical project of mine.

The post-mortem will be worth watching.

Been down for ~50 minutes now and there's no information other than the automated notice on their status page.

Can someone power it off and back on again please?

How can a router be down this long? I would have to reconsider using them moving forward.

Should be coming up now.

So it seems you can't subscribe via RSS. Shame.

Looking forward to the postmortem.