A part of me wishes the open source community would focus making research and industry-backed initiatives like the vLLM Semantic Router rock solid. Then I'd spend less time every month checking if this or that new model router has differentiating over vllm-sr :)

At least for open source inference, it seems like there's healthy competition centered around vllm/sglang, but 2026 seems to be for model routers what 2025 was for agent harnesses.