Most American companies are using frontier or near frontier models.

And OpenRouter’s architecture makes it inherently a compliance nightmare.

It’s much easier for the typical company to go with a provider where they can pay as they go and have a single data processing agreement.

> OpenRouter’s architecture makes it inherently a compliance nightmare

Why?

Because the platform is designed to send data to numerous different backend data processors.

Using something like Bedrock is a lot easier for compliance because the only processor is Amazon.

Amazon would never do anything nefarious.

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		That’s not the point.