# With exactly duplicate routes, which service chosen?

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**Created:** [November 8, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/with-exactly-duplicate-routes-which-service-chosen/10870 "2022-11-08T18:43:29Z")\
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If you have two Services each pointing to a different upstream but you define the identical Route on both (say /foo), how does the gateway decide to which Service the request will be sent?

I found this [older thread](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/why-route-are-not-unique/1547), but that seems to be asking about overlapping Routes on the same Service. My question is when two Routes are effectively identical, which Service will Kong choose?