Comment by danenania

OpenRouter charges a bit extra on credits, and adds some latency with the extra hop, so I decided to keep the OpenAI calls direct by default.

I hear you though that it's a bit of extra hassle to need two accounts, and you're right that it could just use OpenRouter only. The OpenRouter OpenAI endpoints are included as built-in models in Plandex (and can be used via \set-model or a custom model pack - https://docs.plandex.ai/models/model-settings).

I'm also working on allowing direct model provider access in general so that OpenRouter can be optional.

Maybe a quick onboard flow to choose preferred models/providers would be helpful when starting out (OpenRouter only, OpenRouter + OpenAI, direct providers only, etc.).