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In my experience, that's the OpenRouter tax. Even a session that does everything right to remain sticky ends up getting moved between providers on a few request
by Lalabadie 2mo ago
In my experience, that's the OpenRouter tax. Even a session that does everything right to remain sticky ends up getting moved between providers on a few requests, which bills you the full context as input every time the switch happens.
I assume it's done as load balancing/latency mitigation, but it's put me off of OpenRouter for my use cases (limited use, limited need for changing models).
- grono 2mo agoWhy not pin to specific openrouter provider and disable fallback?
- julianz 2mo agoThere is only one provider for this model, so shouldn't be running into that.
- p1necone 2mo agoThis has not been my experience. Generally I do pin to 1 provider, or 1 provider with a couple fallbacks (especially with deepseek - most providers are 10x the cached token price compared to deepseek themselves), but even when I don't I still usually see 99%+ cache hit percentage. Specifically using pi with various ad-hoc customisations (that I was careful not to break prompt caching with).
- irthomasthomas 2mo agothen what is the point of using operouter for this model? Just use the deepseek API and save the 5% fee on top of the better caching rate.
- FridgeSeal 2mo agoBecause they don’t want to sign up for 10 different providers and subscriptions/etc, especially if some models are just going to receive light, or rare usage?
- wut42 2mo agoIt is a pain from openRouter if you don't define your providers correctly, but for DeepSeek, surely not- the weights aren't released yet and there's only one provider, DeepSeek.
- Lalabadie 2mo agoWith Deepseek as the provider, there's no issue of course, but that means you don't filter providers for data retention, and you could also choose direct API use with them at that point.
- wut42 2mo agoFallback are still very useful and won't poison much your cache hits too much if the provider is down anyway.
- stingraycharles 2mo agoThat’s a very heavy tax tbh.
- seunosewa 2mo agoYou can set it up to always use the official provider.
- isqueiros 2mo agoSeems like pro 0813 is exclusively served by Deepseek themselves at the moment so I wouldn't say that's the case?