4/4/2026 at 9:03:47 PM
by ryanatallah
4/4/2026 at 11:00:56 PM
Super convenient for switching out models, and they also play a vetting function. Cool to see a useful service raising!by njyx
4/4/2026 at 11:02:09 PM
A little crazy that Google seems to be the lead investor though...by njyx
4/4/2026 at 9:18:08 PM
I was looking at OpenRouter earlier today, after becoming frustrated with VertexAI. Similar in that they offer a menu of many models, different in that Google is running them and OpenRouter is a proxy.If OpenRouter is not much more than a middle man, what business model are they raising money on? Surveillance?
by verdverm
4/5/2026 at 12:57:33 AM
They reduce friction to using different models and providers.Don't want to spend 4 hours getting an API key to use Google AI? Use openrouter
Don't trust Chinese providers with your data? Use Openrouter and blacklist non-US inference providers.
by polski-g
4/4/2026 at 9:45:05 PM
They are a marketplace for model providers, which is quite a nice business model.by dchest
4/4/2026 at 9:54:42 PM
Being the middleman is always nice until the need is obviated. My understanding is that this is largely used to cycle through free usage tiers without getting rate-limited. Anonymous Credentials is designed to end that.What makes this preferable to a self hosted or framework built-in version?
by verdverm
4/5/2026 at 2:11:47 AM
Convenience. They sell very convenient shovels in a goldrush.by hu3