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I had a look at eurouter.ai and it seems like an extremely bad offer. - The prices are ridiculous (15 % markup for free account). - They have a rate limit of
by johndough 4mo ago
I had a look at eurouter.ai and it seems like an extremely bad offer.
- The prices are ridiculous (15 % markup for free account).
- They have a rate limit of 1000 requests per month, unless you pay 40€ per month for ... what exactly is their value proposition?
- They have a single provider (TensorX) for DeepSeek-V4-Pro, with a cache read cost that is over 100 times higher than DeepSeek ($0.44 vs $0.003625). Notably, I had to look at the TensorX website for that information, since I could not find any information about cached token cost on eurorouter.ai.
- qznc 4mo agoI guess the prices are for "EU owned" instead of "EU hosted". The data centers in the EU where you can rent GPUs is mostly US companies.
- trollbridge 4mo agoIt looks like a business opportunity, then, to provide inference that is EU-local and/or EU-owned. If there aren't enough businesses who want to do this, the EU should figure out how it can properly incentivise that to change.
- imhoguy 4mo agoHosting anything in EU must cover redtape and carbon taxes in electricity bill.
- jampekka 4mo agoThe markup is not going to the providers, only the router. It seems more like eurouter found a niche it can milk for a while.
- Grombobulous 4mo agoThat seems pretty unsubstantiated. Hetzner proves that EU data center != expensive. Low carbon does not equal expensive, either. Solar is the cheapest power generation method. Solar plus grid scale batteries is in the same cost ballpark as natural gas. There’s nothing about data centers that is inherently a high carbon business. It’s only a high carbon business in places like the US where political leadership purposefully fights against renewable energy projects that private businesses want to undertake on their own dime.