So you want to use OpenRouter?

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kinard•30 minutes ago

great post, I just put $100 in credits on open router to try different models, I think maybe using the "real" provider is the way forward once I've spent my credits and decided which one I want (for now).

joelthelion•32 minutes ago

Excellent post, thanks for the article. This is very relevant for anyone using openrouter and similar services seriously.

I feel there is still a lot of progress to be made before we can really trust LLM providers.

xienze•25 minutes ago

It's good to quantify the extent to which a lot of the stuff on there is just vibe-hosted. But I think it was always pretty apparent that this was the case. You've got numerous providers all running the gamut of:

* Hardware availability

* Competency

* Scruples

jwrallie•about 1 hour ago

I noticed some strange behavior when I was setting it up to avoid providers that collect data, hence blocking default providers. Definitely it is worth filtering well tested providers, which is a feature OpenRouter provides.

Krisso•about 1 hour ago

Wish this had more insights on 'cost' - I found OpenRouter credits to burn up fast.

bsaul•about 1 hour ago

That looks absolutely horrifying. What are the alternatives ??

john01dav•24 minutes ago

I've had opencode go + opencode work reliably, though I'm skeptical of how robust their data security claims are in practice because they suddenly blocked accessing Deepseek unless you were okay with the data going to China where true data privacy for something like that is illegal, which makes me wonder where it went before, which weakens my trust. It's also a lot less useful now that Deepseek is so much more expensive.

hadeer626•2 days ago

Yes

anik200•2 days ago

Good job

So you want to use OpenRouter?

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