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On 2026-05-26, @shensi announced Merge Gateway (merge.dev/gateway), a router that…

2026-05-26 · 14:00 UTC ·@shensi ·1 min read

Brief

Merge Gateway, announced by @shensi on 2026-05-26, is a model-routing service (merge.dev/gateway) that routes each request to a team-selected winner via merge_api. It emphasizes custom benchmarks, weighted metrics, and bespoke evals so teams pick models that fit their product and use-cases instead of chasing public 'best' models; first 200 commenters get $100 in credits.

Why it matters

On 2026-05-26, @shensi announced Merge Gateway (merge.dev/gateway), a router that uses merge_api to route every request to the team's chosen 'winner' model.

Key details

  • Merge Gateway lets teams define their own benchmarks, assign weights, and add custom evaluations so model selection is based on product-specific metrics rather than external leaderboards.
  • Promotion: the first 200 people who comment receive $100 in credits; the post frames the product as a fix for teams that repeatedly re-test, re-integrate, and re-deploy whenever new models are released.
Source evidence

Introducing Merge Gateway - Build Your Own Router.

You're three sprints into your coding assistant.

You pick the most hyped model, integrate, test, deploy.

A month later, a new model drops.

Now you re-test, re-integrate, re-deploy.

Your product didn't change, but the benchmark did.

That's how most AI teams operate.

Chasing a "best" defined by people who've never seen their product.

There is no best model.

There's only the right one for your product, users, and use-cases.

Build Your Own Router runs on your definition of good.

Pick your benchmarks, weigh them, add your own evals.

@merge_api routes every request to your winner.

👉$100 in credits to the first 200 people that comment

merge.dev/gateway

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