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Notes from the gateway

Product updates, routing math, and the occasional deep dive into what an LLM gateway actually does under the hood. RSS.

• Aug 1, 2026·12 min read

  What Is an AI Gateway? The Complete Guide for Production AI Applications (2026)

  Learn what an AI Gateway is, why production AI applications need one, and how model routing, failover, and MCP are changing AI infrastructure.

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• Aug 1, 2026·3 min read

  One endpoint for chat + MCP: why we built MCP passthrough

  Every LLM gateway routes chat completions. Leanroute is the only one that also carries MCP tool servers end-to-end — no separate MCP client, no SDK swap, no protocol boundary in your stack.

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