Comment by skeledrew
2 hours ago
> if OpenRouter is blindly dispatching your requests
This can somewhat be the case, depending on your config. I updated mine to make DeepSeek high priority because I was having a lot of cache misses and reliability issues with the default (cheapest (at face value)) providers, and cost was actually higher overall than anticipated. Was smooth sailing from then; might have to tweak things again now pricing has changed though.
I was having the same issue. Did not find any provider that had a cache hit rate anywhere close to DeepSeeks own API.
Not sure if this was an OpenRouter issue or with the other inference providers.