I would not be suprised to see Cloudflare launch a competitor in the next 6 mo. They've done similar before, and it fits their "middle man/service provider" vibe well.

OpenRouter is good because of the market ecosystem play. I see this fragmenting similar to game distribution -- a handful of 3rd-party disti, 1 first-party disti, and some exclusivity/lockup/limited support outside of first party.

I am very interested to see how Stripe develops this. I would be happy to see a less-clunky top-up solution, for example, perhaps with micropayments. Not sure what else they are planning.

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CharlesW 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Cloudflare AI Gateway launched in beta in 2023, and went GA in 2024.

Recent overview: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-platform/

	▲	Hasz an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Part of the issue -- cloudlfare is an inference provider for models (eg glm-4.7-flash) on openrouter. Very very hard to get partners to signup if you're going to directly compete with them.
	▲	arush15june 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's pretty bad though compared to openrouter tbh. I expected it to have some inbuilt cloudflare access access control, but it doesn't have that for improving security either within the team Easier to just use openrouter tbh.