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Switchyard
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NVIDIA-NeMo / Switchyard

Switchyard

Switchyard lets LLM applications route traffic across models and providers while preserving native OpenAI and Anthropic API compatibility - enabling flexible model selection, benchmarking, and cost/performance optimization.

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3.5KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Switchyard lets LLM applications route traffic across models and providers while preserving native OpenAI and Anthropic API compatibility - enabling flexible model selection, benchmarking, and cost/performance optimization.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-08-11 19:54:06 UTC to 2026-08-12 04:54:06 UTC.

012026-08-11 19:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-11 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 11, 19:002026-08-11 20:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-11 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-11 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-11 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-11 22:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-11 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-11 23:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 11, 23:002026-08-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-12 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-12 01:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-12 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-12 02:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-12 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-12 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-12 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-12 04:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-12 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 12, 04:00

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Aug 11, 19:002026-08-11 19:00:00 UTC2026-08-11 20:00:00 UTC101
Aug 11, 20:002026-08-11 20:00:00 UTC2026-08-11 21:00:00 UTC000
Aug 11, 21:002026-08-11 21:00:00 UTC2026-08-11 22:00:00 UTC000
Aug 11, 22:002026-08-11 22:00:00 UTC2026-08-11 23:00:00 UTC000
Aug 11, 23:002026-08-11 23:00:00 UTC2026-08-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12, 00:002026-08-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-12 01:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12, 01:002026-08-12 01:00:00 UTC2026-08-12 02:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12, 02:002026-08-12 02:00:00 UTC2026-08-12 03:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12, 03:002026-08-12 03:00:00 UTC2026-08-12 04:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12, 04:002026-08-12 04:00:00 UTC2026-08-12 05:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Switchyard#routing-strategies Looks like your great question doesn’t have an answer, but looking at the routing strategies things get even more confused, since the proposed ones tend to rely on extra llm calls to determine which model to pick. The nice thing is that it makes sense for specific setups, less conversation oriented. As an example, you need to classify batches of data, and have many fine tuned models. Or you need to do speed to text and need to pick which whisper to use. You can write your own strategy, in that case an harness with subagents would be able to leverage this, picking the right model and then keeping its session sticky, but overall the lack of concern for caching points towards use cases where you do not gain much from it.
In Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
The repo is probably a better entrypoint to it, bit more concise description than the press releases: https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Switchyard (Notably: "Experimental software. Not for production use."). Unclear if they actually want you to deploy it or not, press release says yes, README says no, do with that what you will. Doesn't seem to mention "cache" in the README nor the docs, but the code has mentions of it (https://github.com/search?q=repo%3ANVIDIA-NeMo%2FSwitchyard+...), I'm not sure what their thinking is there. "Good luck" essentially? Seems to be per-provider at best, but weird position for a routing library to take.
In Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

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