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They might be popular for indie developers, but nobody doing serious AI or in a corporate environment is using them. And if they are, their compliance team is
by johnbarron 2mo ago
They might be popular for indie developers, but nobody doing serious AI or in a corporate environment is using them.
And if they are, their compliance team is about to strike them down. The VCs forcing this acquisition do know this.
- Why would you add a penalty of 50 ms at a minimum? And that is not the p95...
Just run LiteLLM in house and you dont even really need that.
- Their capacity pools are shared across the whole user base, a massive batch processing by another of their customers and think what that means for your response time...
- So instead of negotiating corporate rates with OpenAI or Anthropic, you would be using an intermediary and topping up the corporate credit card... for a 5% markdown ? Really?
- They can see all your critical corporate data on the in and out
- They present some pink SOC 2 promises but then wash their hands and defer to
you and the providers. Its just the Bolt and Uber model the drivers are not
our employees....
- They are a man in the middle proxy that is a massive security liability
for your corporation
- They have no support for private cloud points
- No geofencing guarantees
- No intellectual property legal indemnification unlike what AWS or Microsoft or Google offers
- Its a provider roulette inconsistent with hosts providing different quantization levels causing random shifts in response quality
- Support via a Discord server...
The only reason they were not shutdown yet by Anthropic or OpenAI is because they have the same VCs, as those two. That would mean said VCs investment would go to zero. Oh and those are the same VCs that own Stripe...
Just setup a private proxy tier using something like LiteLLM, even if you really dont need it. Just code your enterprise apps to have have fallback loops on the core hyperscaler providers like AWS Bedrock or Azure Foundry...
- devy 2mo agoYep. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344067
- MallocVoidstar 2mo ago> Why would you add a penalty of 50 ms at a minimum? All of the customer service bots I've dealt with recently were reasoning models that thought for multiple seconds. I would not have noticed 50ms extra.
- burnto 1mo agoIt’s not just solo developers. Startup teams with limited time that are focusing their energy on finding the right product to build also use openrouter. I think the bet is that you offer enough value-adds that companies who find traction don’t want to switch to something enterprise grade, and you grow into being enterprise grade with them. Very similar to Stripe’s trajectory, incidentally.