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I was looking at OpenRouter earlier today, after becoming frustrated with VertexAI. Similar in that they offer a menu of many models, different in that Google i
by verdverm 7mo ago
I was looking at OpenRouter earlier today, after becoming frustrated with VertexAI. Similar in that they offer a menu of many models, different in that Google is running them and OpenRouter is a proxy.
If OpenRouter is not much more than a middle man, what business model are they raising money on? Surveillance?
- dchest 7mo agoThey are a marketplace for model providers, which is quite a nice business model.
- verdverm 7mo agoBeing the middleman is always nice until the need is obviated. My understanding is that this is largely used to cycle through free usage tiers without getting rate-limited. Anonymous Credentials is designed to end that. What makes this preferable to a self hosted or framework built-in version? https://blog.dock.io/anonymous-credentials/ https://blog.dock.io/anonymous-credentials/
- hu3 7mo agoConvenience. They sell very convenient shovels in a goldrush.
- polski-g 7mo agoThey reduce friction to using different models and providers. Don't want to spend 4 hours getting an API key to use Google AI? Use openrouter Don't trust Chinese providers with your data? Use Openrouter and blacklist non-US inference providers.