LLM use cases
5 decision guides for comparing provider options, architecture trade-offs and workload economics. Gateway examples are labelled beta.
Build a chatbot via VerticalAPI
I want to build a customer-facing chatbot
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Build a RAG application via VerticalAPI
I want to build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
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Build autonomous agents via VerticalAPI
I want to build an agentic / autonomous LLM workflow
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Function calling and tool use across providers
I want consistent tool-calling behavior across multiple LLM providers
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Vision + text via VerticalAPI
I want to send images, audio or video to an LLM
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