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> 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. > reliabi
by 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 agoThere'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 agoMy 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.