<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Open Vertex Router Blog</title><description>Engineering notes on running LLMs in production: cost control, drop-in OpenAI compatibility and multi-provider routing.</description><link>https://openvertexrouter.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Five new providers: Fireworks AI, Groq, Together AI, xAI, and Z.ai</title><link>https://openvertexrouter.com/blog/five-new-providers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://openvertexrouter.com/blog/five-new-providers/</guid><description>The catalog doubles to ten providers and passes 200 models — all behind the same key, the same budgets, and the same invoice. Switching is still one string.</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>providers</category><category>models</category><category>platform</category></item><item><title>Budgets that actually hold: stopping runaway LLM spend</title><link>https://openvertexrouter.com/blog/llm-budgets-that-hold/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://openvertexrouter.com/blog/llm-budgets-that-hold/</guid><description>Alerts tell you about overspend after it happens. Here&apos;s how prepaid balances, pre-authorization and hard caps make a runaway LLM bill structurally impossible.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>cost-control</category><category>budgets</category><category>reliability</category></item></channel></rss>