{"id":49341198,"user":"andai","time":1787026682,"time_ago":"9 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

You do it if you can afford to do it and your competitor can't.","comments":[{"id":49341214,"user":"psadri","time":1787026884,"time_ago":"9 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Who are OpenRouter’s competitors?","comments":[{"id":49341975,"user":"aurareturn","time":1787033846,"time_ago":"7 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

OpenRouter doesn't decide on the pricing.","comments":[{"id":49342218,"user":"resonious","time":1787035752,"time_ago":"7 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

They do decide on the 5% markup. But as far as I can tell, all other routers just match 5%. Not sure what they're competing on.","comments":[{"id":49342435,"user":"aurareturn","time":1787037379,"time_ago":"6 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yes but Sol dropping in price by 50% is not OpenRouter deciding. It's OpenAI.","comments":[{"id":49342492,"user":"mcintyre1994","time":1787037890,"time_ago":"6 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

I don’t think that’s true. OpenAI docs don’t have this price change. I assume they’d be the source for this post if it was true. The banner on OpenRouter for me says Gemini 3.7 discounted for a limited time, but if I click through that I get to this page: https://openrouter.ai/models?discount=true

That shows a bunch of models, including Sol, with a discount. None of them say how long it’s for, but I’d assume in all their cases it’s for a limited time as the banner said, and only on OpenRouter.","comments":[{"id":49342757,"user":"aurareturn","time":1787039837,"time_ago":"5 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

OpenRouter margins are not 50%.","comments":[{"id":49342803,"user":"stanac","time":1787040240,"time_ago":"5 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

As I understand OAI is offering discount only for users using the model via OR. Not sure why. Maybe they want OR users to try the model and switch to OAI subscription or something.","comments":[{"id":49343687,"user":"SyneRyder","time":1787049246,"time_ago":"3 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

It might also be worth noting that the discount is only if OpenAI itself is used as the provider via OpenRouter. The discount does not exist for Azure or Amazon hosted Sol.

I posted elsewhere, but the Azure uptime & performance for Sol is truly dire. OpenAI is offering 5x faster latency, 4x faster tokens generation, and vastly better uptime (Azure US has only 87% uptime), all for 50% of the price now. I assume the pricing is to compete with other shiny new models (Grok, Qwen etc), but it might also be to cut-off a truly poorly performing Microsoft hosting experience.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":7,"url":"item?id=49343687"},{"id":49342891,"user":"aurareturn","time":1787041017,"time_ago":"5 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yes, but this discount must be coming from OpenAI and not Open Router.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":7,"url":"item?id=49342891"}],"comments_count":2,"level":6,"url":"item?id=49342803"}],"comments_count":3,"level":5,"url":"item?id=49342757"}],"comments_count":4,"level":4,"url":"item?id=49342492"}],"comments_count":5,"level":3,"url":"item?id=49342435"}],"comments_count":6,"level":2,"url":"item?id=49342218"}],"comments_count":7,"level":1,"url":"item?id=49341975"}],"comments_count":8,"level":0,"url":"item?id=49341214"},{"id":49341906,"user":"fileeditview","time":1787033352,"time_ago":"7 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

That kind of is a reason.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":0,"url":"item?id=49341906"}],"comments_count":10,"url":"item?id=49341198"}

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