← Back to context Comment by AntiUSAbah 1 day ago Wow thats a lot for routing traffic. 7 comments AntiUSAbah Reply sailfast 1 day 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 19 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. sailfast 3 hours ago My point was that it centralizes this to one place instead of 10 for engineers, not that you wouldn’t have to deal with these things at all.A single point of access with a single key for all of these things is a worthwhile convenience. brianush1 6 hours 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 15 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 1 day ago Payment processing likely eats up at least 2-3% of that arcanemachiner 1 day 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 1 day 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 19 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. sailfast 3 hours ago My point was that it centralizes this to one place instead of 10 for engineers, not that you wouldn’t have to deal with these things at all.A single point of access with a single key for all of these things is a worthwhile convenience. brianush1 6 hours 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 15 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 19 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. sailfast 3 hours ago My point was that it centralizes this to one place instead of 10 for engineers, not that you wouldn’t have to deal with these things at all.A single point of access with a single key for all of these things is a worthwhile convenience. brianush1 6 hours 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 15 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.
sailfast 3 hours ago My point was that it centralizes this to one place instead of 10 for engineers, not that you wouldn’t have to deal with these things at all.A single point of access with a single key for all of these things is a worthwhile convenience.
brianush1 6 hours 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 15 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 1 day ago Payment processing likely eats up at least 2-3% of that arcanemachiner 1 day 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 1 day 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.
My point was that it centralizes this to one place instead of 10 for engineers, not that you wouldn’t have to deal with these things at all.
A single point of access with a single key for all of these things is a worthwhile convenience.
> 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.