Model mapping is the core innovation point of Claude Proxy, and its necessity is mainly reflected in:
- Naming Harmonization Requirements: model naming rules vary widely across AI vendors (e.g., Claude's Haiku/Sonnet vs OpenAI's gpt-3.5), mapping front-end can be invoked with a uniform name
- Cost optimization: anytime by modifying the
OPEN_MODELVariables switching between models at different price points (e.g. Claude-Sonnet for production environments, switching to the lower cost Haiku for testing)
Typical application scenarios include:
- Enterprise application development requires automatic downgrading to more cost-effective models based on QPS
- A/B test the performance of different models on specific tasks without modifying the client code
- Quickly switch to a standby model to ensure service continuity in case of API failure of a particular model
This feature realizes dynamic routing through simple variable modifications, reducing the amount of adaptation code by about 701 TP3T compared to traditional solutions.
This answer comes from the articleClaude Proxy: Proxy tool to convert Claude API to OpenAI formatThe
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