Testing multiple LLMs without a new console each time

If you evaluate more than one model vendor, the overhead is rarely the model call itself. It is the extra console: another signup, another key format, another invoice page.

What I tried first:

• A spreadsheet of keys and a note of which project used which vendor
• One small wrapper per vendor, then a switch in config
• Reading three billing dashboards at the end of the week

None of that is hard once. It is expensive every time a new model shows up.

What I do now is send traffic through one OpenAI-compatible gateway, then read logs and token usage in a single dashboard. The product I use for that is APIGOTO. RouterCode is the desktop client if you would rather not start from a CLI.

APIGOTO / RouterCode is an independent service. It is not an official product of any model vendor. Names like Codex, Claude, Hermes or OpenClaw may appear in setup notes; that is configuration support, not affiliation.

There is a TOKEN trial for new users. Quota, validity and which models are included follow the live rules on the site, not this post.

Happy to talk about routing, credential health checks and failover in the comments.

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