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Congrats, OpenRouter is a great product! I check it's model rankings and prices daily. The charts are great. Please never change! On another note... I'm surprised OpenAI didn't buy them. I'm even more surprised OpenAI is giving exclusive discounts on openrouter, essentially encouraging the few API customers they had onto a much larger, cheaper and richer marketplace.
Alex's first post about OpenRouter got 6 upvotes and 0 comments on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481760
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Nice. Happy to be mistaken on that point as that seems very useful.
Your main point is still right, the providers are beginning to shift to non-commodity features. Another example might be all the managed agent features, where you get a VM + model, right now it's mostly Google and Anthropic that have this offering. The service tier is another, where Google, Vertex, OAI, Anth offer it but only OAI and Google offer flex service tier and not all models from them get it. OpenRouter for m…
is the selling point that they just give you access to a unified access in where you get to write each request toward the particular api provider's api spec? if so why not just sign up with the vendor directly?
Alex's first post about OpenRouter got 6 upvotes and 0 comments on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481760
What does window.ai have to do with OpenRouter? I don't use either, so your link confuses me.
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This is, somewhat ironically, the most well-known HN comment outside of HN.
It's also very representative of the HN comment section vibes overall. But such is normal with normies providing startup critiques, if you just look at every announcement and say "this will fail", you'd be right 99% of the time.
So nothing really has changed in this community's vibes.
Could someone explain why these routers are so valuable and pulling acquisitions in the billions?
PE is desperately competing other PE to get into the promise of some AI thingy NOW? Just guessing. The frenzy around popular, good already, and successful services with the corporate crap flowing from this acquisition announcement too is appalling. The "what's best for you, the user" heavy emphasis when this would be inherently evident in any honest service forecasts the opposite. Some highlights from one of my agent…
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It's hard. - They support 400 different models, 80 different providers, and an unlimited number of new custom agents. Every single model, provider, and agent, has its own weirdness that has to be accounted for. Tool calls change by model. Effort changes by model. Backend APIs (messages, responses, etc) change by provider. There are thousands of specific tweaks, fixes, hacks, that need to be implemented to make this t…
I did almost all of that alone, for TrustedRouter.com