Routing Metadata

Inspect every routing trace in detail

Routing metadata provides detailed insight into the router's decision-making process when selecting an endpoint from multiple eligible candidates.

To include routing metadata in your response, set include_metadata: true in your request body.

Python

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
  base_url="https://api.cortecs.ai/v1/chat/completions",
  api_key="<API_KEY>",
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="<MODEL_NAME>",
  messages=[
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Tell me a joke."
    }
  ],
  extra_body={
    "include_metadata": True
  }
)

print(completion.metadata)

Node.js

Curl

Note: If using streaming mode, the metadata is included with the final chunk of the response.

Metadata Structure

The metadata object contains the following sections:

routing_results

• selected_provider: The provider endpoint chosen by the router.

• applied_filters: A list of all filters applied (both implicit and explicit).

• cost:

  • prompt_cost: Cost associated with the prompt.

  • completion_cost: Cost associated with the completion.

  • total_cost: Total cost.

  • currency: Default is credits, where 1€ = 1.000.000 credits.

• latency_ms: Latency in milliseconds from the selected provider.

routing_trace

• initial_candidates: List of all providers that support the requested model.

• filtered_out_candidates: Providers removed during filtering, each with:

  • provider: Name of the provider.

  • filter_failed: The name of the filter that failed.

  • reason: Explanation for the filter failure.

• scored_candidates: Providers that passed filtering, along with scoring details:

  • provider: Name of the provider.

  • score: The computed score.

  • scoring_context: Data used during scoring.

  • status: One of:

    • success– The provider was selected and the request completed successfully.

    • failed – The provider was selected, but the request failed, so a fallback provider was used.

    • not_attempted– The provider was eligible but not selected because a higher-scoring provider was used.

• scoring_function:

  • function: Name of the scoring function used.

  • sort: Indicates whether the router sorted by maximum or minimum score.