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Resources & Guides

From five-minute Cursor setup to self-hosting production inference. Everything we know about building AI products.

Quick start

Plug D Route into your editor in 2 minutes

Tutorials

Step-by-step guides

10 min · Beginner

Build a Diwali greeting generator in 10 minutes

Use D Route's auto-routing feature to call GPT-4o and Mistral — compare outputs in the playground.

15 min · Intermediate

RAG with DeepSeek + Voyage embeddings

Wire a PDF chatbot using D Route's embeddings and chat endpoints in pure Python.

20 min · Intermediate

Streaming a code-writing agent with Claude Sonnet

Build an autonomous dev agent that uses tool calling and streaming in tandem.

30 min · Advanced

Self-hosting OmniRoute behind your D Route key

Bring-your-own inference — fine-tuned models, private VPC, zero data leaving your account.

8 min · Beginner

Vision: build a UPI-receipt analyser

Send a screenshot of a UPI payment screen, get a structured JSON back via GPT-4o vision.

12 min · Intermediate

Reasoning model playground: o1 vs. R1 vs. Claude thinking

Run the same hard math task across reasoning models, capture reasoning tokens, compare accuracy.

Reference

Concept deep-dives

Why a unified API?

The economics of running every model under one key and one bill — and how we eat the cost.

Auto routing, explained

How model: "auto" decides between GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini and Qwen per request.

Data & privacy

Where your prompts go, what we log, how to opt out, and why we never train on your data.

Rate limits & fair use

Real numbers on requests-per-minute, token-per-minute and concurrent streams.

Migrating from OpenRouter

Drop-in replacement — what changes, what stays the same, and how the bill differs.

Migrating from direct providers

Why replacing 5 dashboards and 5 bills with 1 is worth it for a 200-person team.