--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "34ad88f8f243a3219820d6520181b0dc2650141265b630b78a41d5c9ecec9552" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/34ad88f8?lang=en" title: "Model routing with Google Cloud API Gateway" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-09-15T19:46:17.000Z" category: "Products" topics: [] source_urls: ["https://developers.googleblog.com/a-unified-api-for-ai-model-routing/"] summary: "Google Cloud API Gateway now offers a model routing feature in Public Preview, allowing developers to dynamically route traffic to models like Gemini, Claude, or OpenAI OSS-GPT without hardcoding endpoints or managing open-source proxies. Developers can easily configure these routing rules directly within their OpenAPI 3.x specifications by mapping virtual model names to specific backend targets on a shared host. Once deployed, the Gateway acts as a serverless ingress layer that accepts standard OpenAI-compatible requests, automatically transcodes the payload to the native schema of the target model, and routes the traffic on the fly." --- # Model routing with Google Cloud API Gateway > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-09-15T19:46:17.000Z **Category:** Products ## Summary Google Cloud API Gateway now offers a model routing feature in Public Preview, allowing developers to dynamically route traffic to models like Gemini, Claude, or OpenAI OSS\-GPT without hardcoding endpoints or managing open\-source proxies\. Developers can easily configure these routing rules directly within their OpenAPI 3\.x specifications by mapping virtual model names to specific backend targets on a shared host\. Once deployed, the Gateway acts as a serverless ingress layer that accepts standard OpenAI\-compatible requests, automatically transcodes the payload to the native schema of the target model, and routes the traffic on the fly\. ## Sources - [Story source]()