I have GoModel running at home, being deployed at work. There are many good reasons to run a gateway, some include

- being resilient to upstream provider downtime

- centrally managed config/controls

- visibility and allocation into usage and costs

We are deploying a gateway at work primarily for these three.

At home, GoModel's virtual models have been super helpful for testing out new open weights. I can change the model deployed in vLLM without having to change any of my downstream tools, which get a stable name.

https://gomodel.enterpilot.io/docs/features/virtual-models