OpenAI-compatible API first-call smoke test before you scale a workflow

Short summary

A tutorial recommending a single small curl request as the first milestone when adding any new OpenAI-compatible AI API route, checking base URL, API key, model name, balance, and logs before scaling. After the smoke test passes, run 10-20 representative tasks and evaluate cost per successful task rather than token price alone. The author discloses affiliation with ModelRouter, a third-party API gateway, and includes promotional links.

• •Start with one tiny curl request to validate base URL, API key, model name, and logs before any scaling
• •After smoke test, run 10-20 real workflow tasks and measure cost per successful task including retries and failures
• •Author discloses affiliation with ModelRouter, a third-party OpenAI-compatible gateway

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