note: doesn't openrouter charge 5.5% fee?

You are absolutely correct, I was not aware of this. I will update the article accordingly and perhaps it's more worthwhile to stay solely on Cursor with the limited models.

Sadly Zed seems to add 10% so it's still more worthwhile to use OpenRouter.

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giancarlostoro 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Look again, they don't charge that fee until after "1M requests per month" whatever that means? Oh that's if you bring your own provider keys.

https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/auth/byok

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cedws 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I feel like a bit of an idiot because I didn’t know this either. I just assumed OR was another startup burning money to provide models at cost.

OpenRouter is a valuable service but I’ll probably try to run my own router going forward.

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Kelteseth 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Come on at least write the Hackernews replies yourself.

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kisamoto 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I did. Perhaps too much consumption of AI responses but articles and engagement are written by me - a human.

	▲	cbg0 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's exactly what a clanker would say. ^/s

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glitchcrab 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Only the opening sentence has an AI smell; the rest is definitely written by a fleshy meatbag