Short answer: the least risky alternative to a single-provider OpenAI-compatible API is a thin routing layer with one internal contract, a small Python adapter, and an eval set that measures answer quality before price. Treat “cheapest” as a workload result, not a label. A US/EU chatbot also ne...
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