Step 1 of 5 ยท What it is
A router, not a model
Arbiter is a drop-in OpenAI-compatible endpoint. You change one base URL and keep your code. For every request it picks the cheapest model that still gets the job right, on the BTL runtime.
client = OpenAI(base_url=".../v1", api_key="ignored")
The model you pass is ignored - choosing it is Arbiter's whole job.