*State of non-enterprise, indie AI

All this data confirms that OpenRouter’s enterprise ambitions will fail. It’s a nice product for running Chinese models tho

They have SOTA models from OpenAI and Anthropic and Google and you can access them at a 5.5% premium. What you get is the ability to seamlessly switch between them. And also when one is down you can instantly switch to another. Whether that is valuable to you or not is use case dependent. But it isn’t without value.

What it does have I think is a problem that TaskRabbit had: you can hire a house cleaner through TR but once you find a good one you can just work directly with them and save the middleman fee. So OR is great for experimenting with a ton of models to see what is the cheapest one that still performs the tasks you need but then you no longer need OR unless it is for reliability.