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Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

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Re: Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

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Post by k__ »

mft_ wrote: post #11
neya wrote: post #4

So, there is 0 differentiation from this and OpenRouter. The only difference is just that it is European in name only, but underlying services are not. And the pricing also isn't any cheaper. So, why would I spend my development hours switching to this than just stay on OpenRouter? Just because it's an "EU" alternative? The webpage doesn't even comply with basic GDPR requirements. Sigh.

Indeed; a "European" router serving mostly US models is (deliberately?) missing the point.

How come?

You can use it with just European models if you want.

Re: Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

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Post by stingraycharles »

swiftcoder wrote: post #16

Under what circumstances would one pay a 5.5% premium so that an EU-built (but not EU hosted) routing layer could proxy to US/chinese model providers?

In a world where it enables you to tell your place of a work “just get us an account there so we have access to all models under a single billing account”.

In other words, it solves an organizational problem, not a technical one. That’s what the 5.5% is for.

Whether or not you prefer this or OpenRouter or one of the other LLM gateways is another discussion.

Re: Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

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Post by raincole »

rolandm wrote: post #24
swiftcoder wrote: post #16

Under what circumstances would one pay a 5.5% premium so that an EU-built (but not EU hosted) routing layer could proxy to US/chinese model providers?

But OpenRouter also costs 5.5%: https://openrouter.ai/pricing

And? The point is that it's routed to the same model. Is the middleman's nationality that important, especially when you already accept the existence of a middleman?

Re: Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

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Post by embedding-shape »

swiftcoder wrote: post #16

Under what circumstances would one pay a 5.5% premium so that an EU-built (but not EU hosted) routing layer could proxy to US/chinese model providers?

Under the circumstance where I'm looking for a "AI Gateway" (not sure why I would, but lets say) and at the same time I prefer to use EU businesses because it tends to be easier and more familiar.

What happens after the AI Gateway don't matter that much, since the whole purpose of the product seems to be about routing LLM inference requests, if it didn't do that, I don't think they'll have anything to sell in the first place :)

Re: Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

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Post by embedding-shape »

raincole wrote: post #25
rolandm wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But OpenRouter also costs 5.5%: https://openrouter.ai/pricing

And? The point is that it's routed to the same model. Is the middleman's nationality that important, especially when you already accept the existence of a middleman?

If you're an EU business it's easier to do B2B with other EU businesses, just like it's easier for US businesses to do B2B with other US businesses. Not sure this is strange or out of the ordinary, I think it works the same in most places in the world today.

Re: Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

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Post by embedding-shape »

nubg wrote: post #12

The European Alternative to Openrouter would be a simple open source proxy, not yet another proprietary service.

Is OpenRouter just a simple open source proxy? If not, how could that possibly be a relevant alternative for people using OpenRouter today?
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