## What it is
Apertis is a unified gateway that puts 470+ models from 30+ providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and more — behind a single OpenAI-compatible API key. Point your existing OpenAI or Anthropic client at it and you can call any model without rewiring code. It’s built for coding tools too: Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline work out of the box.
## Why it matters
The selling points are routing and price. Apertis adds smart routing with automatic failover, so if one provider goes down or slow, your request reroutes instead of erroring out. Free prompt caching is built in, and the company claims roughly half the cost of calling providers direct. You can run it as a subscription with a fixed per-request quota, or pay-as-you-go per token. As teams juggle a dozen models across providers, the gateway layer — one key, one bill, one endpoint — is quietly becoming standard plumbing for AI apps.

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