You create an account. Pay money. Get API key. Use APIs.

ApolloFortyNine 3 hours ago | parent [-]

But if you use any decent amount of tokens, it's probably worth saving the 15% by moving to the provider they're proxying.

And if it's not worth it, then are you spending enough where it even effects Openrouter's bottom line?

With enough devs playing with hobby projects I'm not doubting it's profitable, only that $7 billion seems way too high.

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asadm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

OR I can keep paying 15% markup till next month and then jump to newest / cheapest model with one-liner change instead of being locked to a model/provider.

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cute_boi 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Which model/provider locks like this, most of them use chatgpt style apis anyway.

	▲	tomnipotent 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That requires that you create accounts and separately manage each provider you want to use. OpenRouter removes that - if a new provider gets added, you can start using them immediately.

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akho 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Aren't they all the same api? Are you paying 15 % to change one line, and not, like, three?

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Tepix 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

15%? Isn't the fee 5.5% with lower fees for enterprise customers?