| ▲ | paxys 7 hours ago |
| Which raises the question - who is subsidizing this, and why? |
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| ▲ | internetter 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Possibly OAI? If you have OAI tokens you are a captive audience. If you have OpenRouter you are bidding on a free market. OpenRouter attributes this promotion to OpenAI https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2089416739398254662 |
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| ▲ | maxnevermind 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Why though, to AB test/see the impact of a price cut on a platform with multiple competitors? | |
| ▲ | paxys 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is this captive audience not going to switch providers for a 50% discount? Especially when the effort is simply swapping one URL for another? |
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| ▲ | OutOfHere 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| OpenRouter is likely just leveraging Codex subscriptions. |
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| ▲ | prime_ursid 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Wouldn’t that be against TOS? | | |
| ▲ | OutOfHere 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It might be through a level of indirection via an intermediate provider, offloading the TOS issue to the intermediate provider who couldn't care less. |
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