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Executive Summary

Many self‑hosted applications struggle to adopt alternative model providers because each vendor has slightly different endpoints, authentication, and model semantics; this creates engineering debt for developers and prevents enterprises from switching to private inference or lower‑cost hosts without months of integration work. The organizations most affected are the estimated 1.4M developer teams and mid‑to‑large enterprises that prioritize privacy, latency, and cost control and currently face vendor lock‑in or heavy compliance burdens when trying to run workloads on premise. You could build a compatibility layer and management plane that exposes a stable OpenAI‑compatible API to self‑hosted apps while routing calls to configurable backends via adapters, model capability mapping, request/response translation, policy enforcement, telemetry, and billing hooks. The product would include an open‑source on‑prem agent for secure network egress, hosted control plane for fleet configuration, SDKs and a regression test suite for compatibility drift, and enterprise features such as SSO, audit logs, rate limiting, and SLA routing for latency‑sensitive traffic. This architecture keeps integration friction minimal for app developers while giving platform teams control over where and how models run. The timing is favorable: total addressable spend of roughly $28B (1.4M developer organizations × ~$20K ACV) is driven by an inflection toward private inference and broad API compatibility between vendors, which lowers switching friction and increases demand for configurable endpoints (market score 90/100, revenue potential 86/100). To stand out you must focus on developer ergonomics, rigorous compatibility testing, low‑latency routing, and trust signals such as an open‑source agent and strong enterprise controls, while being candid about the key challenges—continuous compatibility maintenance, supporting divergent model semantics, and competing with well‑funded platform players—so expect a meaningful engineering and support investment to capture this opportunity.

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Enable self-hosted apps to use custom OpenAI-compatible API endpoints

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Enable self-hosted apps to use custom OpenAI-compatible API endpoints

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Market Opportunity

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