Your LLM Gateway's 200 OK Status May Be a Misleading Placeholder

Every AI gateway on the market — LiteLLM, Portkey, OpenRouter, Olla — checks the same things: HTTP status code, response time, token usage. If the backup provider returns HTTP 200 with valid JSON, the gateway declares success. But HTTP 200 only tells you the request completed. It says nothing about

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