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And handling API tokens, and billing, and reliability, and middleware. I am not affiliated with them but it’s not “just” routing. Apple still charges 30%. 5.5

• Dylan16807 6mo ago
  > handling API tokens Don't you still need to handle tokens with them? Also that's trivial. > billing Yes but you'd be paying for billing anyway. > reliability They increase reliability? > middleware Which you wouldn't need if you paid directly. I'm not saying they shouldn't get 5.5%, but that list is mostly non-convincing. > Apple still charges 30%. 3 of the 30 is for billing, with the rest mostly being gatekeeping with a fake justification on top.
  • polski-g 6mo ago
    There's nothing trivial about getting a Google API key. Openrouter removes that stress from my life. And I can route requests to providers above a certain TPS threshold. And much more.
  • brianush1 6mo ago
    > They increase reliability? For models that have multiple providers, they automatically route your requests to a different provider if one of them goes down.
  • sailfast 6mo ago
    My point was that it centralizes this to one place instead of 10 for engineers, not that you wouldn’t have to deal with these things at all. A single point of access with a single key for all of these things is a worthwhile convenience.