I tried using deepseek v4 flash with OpenRouter. It switches between providers too eagerly which resets the cache. Then, each provider begins to rate limit me for providing so many uncached tokens, so it just keeps on switching providers. I'm paying for every token... why rate limit me? It was unusable compared to just using the official Deepseek provider which has a much better cache rate.

I just checked because I was a bit paranoid, but I have a 96.6% cache hit rate for GPT-5.6 Luna and 96.8% for Opus 5.

I have seen you advertise your website a few times. I like the idea of not having to trust the router, so I took some time out of my day to critique your website: https://files.catbox.moe/v68cf7.png

My visit to your website went like this:

1. Visit models page

2. Try to find GLM-5.3-Flash (which is among the ~5 models that 90% of people currently care about)

3. Give up scrolling (which would have taken OVER 50 SCROLLS!!!) and use Ctrl + F

4. Try to find input/output/cached price

5. Scroll all the way up to find out which column is what

6. Notice that output price is cut off

7. Notice that the scroll bar is over 100 scrolls further down the page

8. Use Shift + Wheel to scroll horizontally (most visitors probably won't know this trick)

9. Notice that cached price is missing

10. Conclude that this is probably not a serious offering and bounce

There are probably more issues later on, but this is how far I got.

I would suggest you to:

- Deslopify all pages that a user may visit before conversion

- List important models first (see OpenRouter rankings)

- Move the most important information (model name/input/output/cached price) to the left

- Disaggregate the prices per provider (maybe subtables per model? not sure)

- Measure cache hit rate and compute effective price per provider (see OpenRouter)

(- Optional: Fix the broken link on your HN profile page. Currently, the only way to get from this comment to your website is a search engine.)

How am I supposed to navigate around there? For example the pricing page is empty or is that how it was supposed to look? On models and providers pages there are lists but no way to filter or get any kind of meaningful info. Or is this a WIP/POC?