Capability · Framework — orchestration

Requesty

Requesty is a newer entrant in the AI gateway space, targeting developers who want unified access to many model providers with fine-grained routing policies — route by cost, latency, context window, or model strength for a task. Like OpenRouter it offers one API key and consolidated billing, but emphasises configurable routing rules and developer-friendly analytics.

Framework facts

Category: orchestration
Language: API (OpenAI-compatible)
License: commercial

Install

pip install openai
# Requesty is OpenAI-API-compatible

Quickstart

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url='https://router.requesty.ai/v1',
    api_key='rq-...'
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model='anthropic/claude-opus-4-7',
    messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Write a haiku about RAG.'}]
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Alternatives

OpenRouter — larger market share, similar model
LiteLLM — self-hosted equivalent
Portkey — adds guardrails
Helicone — observability-first alternative

Frequently asked questions

Why pick Requesty over OpenRouter?

Requesty's differentiator is configurable routing policies — you can say 'use Haiku for simple classification but fall back to Opus for hard cases' without code changes. For many teams OpenRouter is enough; Requesty is worth a look if you want centralised routing logic.

Does it work with agent frameworks?

Yes. Its OpenAI-compatible endpoint works with LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, and most others by just swapping the base URL and API key.

Sources

Requesty — home — accessed 2026-04-20