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If you take a closer look at OpenRouter, it is a Cloudflare + Stripe wrapper. Payments are core to their business. They only charge 5%, of which probably 3-3.5

If you take a closer look at OpenRouter, it is a Cloudflare + Stripe wrapper. Payments are core to their business. They only charge 5%, of which probably 3-3.5% goes directly to stripe. So they are making maybe 1%. If they have any payments fraud it takes a crazy amount of volume to make up for it. So, the openrouter aquisition makes a lot of sense to me. I suspect almost all of openrouter growing pains are payments related.

Taikhoom2010 2mo ago
That is a unique angle I did not think about - I did try to explain why I think it is an aggregator nonetheless. https://open.substack.com/pub/taikhooms/p/why-openrouter-can-be-the-next-great?r=2pgab7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/taikhooms/p/why-openrouter-can...