One API Key for OpenAI, Claude and Gemini: Building Reliable Chatbot Fallbacks

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A Python developer building RAG and agent features for a mid-size SaaS product shares lessons learned from three chatbot routing designs over 18 months. The core challenge is not authentication but response shape inconsistencies — different providers use different error classes, token count fields, and streaming chunk formats. A silent bug caused 25% of nightly eval rows to go missing when a fallback model returned 'None' for usage data on streamed responses, with no clear error pointing to the provider mismatch. The developer recommends using a single gateway API that normalizes responses and always surfaces which model produced them. Fallback logic — such as routing from a cheaper model to a smarter one on failure — should live in application code and trigger only on genuine errors like HTTP 429 or 5xx, not on malformed requests.

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