Please do not auto-route to different models as a backup

I understand Google is having an issue and gemini-2.5-pro isn’t available.
I never asked for requests to be routed to gpt-4.1 in this case.
I will pick the model I want to route to when there is a failure.
This is a poor decision, please make this configurable or disable it.

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I am happy to see the error message got updated. An automatic fallback is not an option, though. different models behave very differently. not only might this lead to messed up results, it also costs money for an unrequested service.

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I disagree, so I suggest a compromise:
Add an option: when the model call fails, automatically switch to a backup model.