← Back to context Comment by AntiUSAbah 20 hours ago Wow thats a lot for routing traffic. 6 comments AntiUSAbah Reply sailfast 20 hours ago And handling API tokens, and billing, and reliability, and middleware. I am not affiliated with them but it’s not “just” routing.Apple still charges 30%. 5.5 seems pretty reasonable. /shrug I dunno. Dylan16807 13 hours ago > handling API tokensDon't you still need to handle tokens with them? Also that's trivial.> billingYes but you'd be paying for billing anyway.> reliabilityThey increase reliability?> middlewareWhich you wouldn't need if you paid directly.I'm not saying they shouldn't get 5.5%, but that list is mostly non-convincing.> Apple still charges 30%.3 of the 30 is for billing, with the rest mostly being gatekeeping with a fake justification on top. brianush1 11 minutes ago > They increase reliability?For models that have multiple providers, they automatically route your requests to a different provider if one of them goes down. polski-g 9 hours ago There's nothing trivial about getting a Google API key. Openrouter removes that stress from my life. And I can route requests to providers above a certain TPS threshold. And much more. ac29 20 hours ago Payment processing likely eats up at least 2-3% of that arcanemachiner 17 hours ago IIRC OpenRouter charges you for the payment processing fee also.Still worth it IMO to be able to switch from Provider A to Provider B if Provider A is having a bad day.
sailfast 20 hours ago And handling API tokens, and billing, and reliability, and middleware. I am not affiliated with them but it’s not “just” routing.Apple still charges 30%. 5.5 seems pretty reasonable. /shrug I dunno. Dylan16807 13 hours ago > handling API tokensDon't you still need to handle tokens with them? Also that's trivial.> billingYes but you'd be paying for billing anyway.> reliabilityThey increase reliability?> middlewareWhich you wouldn't need if you paid directly.I'm not saying they shouldn't get 5.5%, but that list is mostly non-convincing.> Apple still charges 30%.3 of the 30 is for billing, with the rest mostly being gatekeeping with a fake justification on top. brianush1 11 minutes ago > They increase reliability?For models that have multiple providers, they automatically route your requests to a different provider if one of them goes down. polski-g 9 hours ago There's nothing trivial about getting a Google API key. Openrouter removes that stress from my life. And I can route requests to providers above a certain TPS threshold. And much more.
Dylan16807 13 hours ago > handling API tokensDon't you still need to handle tokens with them? Also that's trivial.> billingYes but you'd be paying for billing anyway.> reliabilityThey increase reliability?> middlewareWhich you wouldn't need if you paid directly.I'm not saying they shouldn't get 5.5%, but that list is mostly non-convincing.> Apple still charges 30%.3 of the 30 is for billing, with the rest mostly being gatekeeping with a fake justification on top. brianush1 11 minutes ago > They increase reliability?For models that have multiple providers, they automatically route your requests to a different provider if one of them goes down. polski-g 9 hours ago There's nothing trivial about getting a Google API key. Openrouter removes that stress from my life. And I can route requests to providers above a certain TPS threshold. And much more.
brianush1 11 minutes ago > They increase reliability?For models that have multiple providers, they automatically route your requests to a different provider if one of them goes down.
polski-g 9 hours ago There's nothing trivial about getting a Google API key. Openrouter removes that stress from my life. And I can route requests to providers above a certain TPS threshold. And much more.
ac29 20 hours ago Payment processing likely eats up at least 2-3% of that arcanemachiner 17 hours ago IIRC OpenRouter charges you for the payment processing fee also.Still worth it IMO to be able to switch from Provider A to Provider B if Provider A is having a bad day.
arcanemachiner 17 hours ago IIRC OpenRouter charges you for the payment processing fee also.Still worth it IMO to be able to switch from Provider A to Provider B if Provider A is having a bad day.
And handling API tokens, and billing, and reliability, and middleware. I am not affiliated with them but it’s not “just” routing.
Apple still charges 30%. 5.5 seems pretty reasonable. /shrug I dunno.
> handling API tokens
Don't you still need to handle tokens with them? Also that's trivial.
> billing
Yes but you'd be paying for billing anyway.
> reliability
They increase reliability?
> middleware
Which you wouldn't need if you paid directly.
I'm not saying they shouldn't get 5.5%, but that list is mostly non-convincing.
> Apple still charges 30%.
3 of the 30 is for billing, with the rest mostly being gatekeeping with a fake justification on top.
> They increase reliability?
For models that have multiple providers, they automatically route your requests to a different provider if one of them goes down.
There's nothing trivial about getting a Google API key. Openrouter removes that stress from my life. And I can route requests to providers above a certain TPS threshold. And much more.
Payment processing likely eats up at least 2-3% of that
IIRC OpenRouter charges you for the payment processing fee also.
Still worth it IMO to be able to switch from Provider A to Provider B if Provider A is having a bad day.