Comment by arjie

I prefer using OpenRouter because the money I pay them in premium is far less than the money I lose by not using it on other providers. On OpenRouter, I can switch dollars between models. But for the providers, after evaluating I'm stuck with some number of credits on ones I don't use. This kind of intermediation is actually super useful to me. I must imagine that they can also provide other things that are of value like provider quality measures, ability to swap providers during downtime, etc.