Found a good european alternative: https://cortecs.ai/pricing
They seem to be about twice as expensive on a few openweight models I've checked.
OpenRouter is joining Stripe
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#462Found a good european alternative: https://cortecs.ai/pricing
Probably the main EU alternative to Openrouter is actually https://requesty.ai, more fully featured and equivalent model access.
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#463I love OpenRouter, long time user. Stripe will hopefully be a good custodian. I just want to point out some features of OpenRouter that make it more than just a model selection and routing endpoint and that I find incredibly useful: 0/ Default routing is to the cheapest provider, but they're usually not the most performant. I'd guess 99% of OpenRouter integrations never tweak the default routing. Here you can setup c…
This seems like something xAi could reproduce in a weekend
xAI just not in the game, never was.
Re: OpenRouter is joining Stripe
#464I love OpenRouter, long time user. Stripe will hopefully be a good custodian. I just want to point out some features of OpenRouter that make it more than just a model selection and routing endpoint and that I find incredibly useful: 0/ Default routing is to the cheapest provider, but they're usually not the most performant. I'd guess 99% of OpenRouter integrations never tweak the default routing. Here you can setup c…
This seems like something xAi could reproduce in a weekend
Everyone could reproduce this on a weekend...
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#465Alex (the OpenRouter founder) and I went for walks to Sightglass coffee on Divisadero St during our weekly office hours @ HF0 in the Fall of '23. On one walk I asked 'why are you doing another startup?' For context, his last one, OpenSea, was valued well into the billions, so it wasn't for money. His reply: "I just love solving all the puzzles." It's incredibly hard to compete with someone who is playing the game for…
OpenSea is full of scams, has not added any real value to anyone or society.
DOn't get me wrong, great for him to make money and being able to move fast and succeed, but you could play this game to if you want.
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#466"inference is quickly becoming the largest line item for every company." — not really?
"that will remain essential in a post-AGI economy." — ooof. The magical future economy
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#467Great product, been using it for a while. Turns out even a proxy can be worth $8bn with the right business model behind it. Users get an array of providers competing behind a single API, meaning they have to compete on price and quality not vendor lock-in. This encourages users to join OpenRouter over specific model vendors. Providers get easy access to revenue (and data) and new customers with little to no ad spendi…
I think it has to be more than just a 'proxy' what Stripe bought.
Stripe and every other big company could build this without any issues.
It either is just a really stupid business decision or it is about the name. The only model proxy i know is OpenRouter despite plenty of other model proxies existing.
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#468How in god's name is openrouter worth $7,000,000,000? Can somebody explain to me, or is everything to do with AI just astronomically overvalued these days.
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#469Could someone explain why these routers are so valuable and pulling acquisitions in the billions?
I don't think they are.
Just because some Higher Ups in Stripe bought this, doesn't mean its that valuable.
It can easily be, that Stripe can just afford it and think that they are part of the big boys and thats just what companies cost today.
It could be that Stripe really really like the brand name and all the positive notion of it.
It could be that Stripe doesn't want to build this from scratch in a timefrime of 1 year or 2 because Stripe might be too corporate to be able to do startup stuff.
Stripe has quite a high motivation to leverage agents thoguh because they are preparing for Agents which will buy through stripe. They already provide the SKU backend and support the agent payment stuff.