OpenRouter

“I have heard a lot about Open Router, and seeing a 70B model on a free plan, vs my local 7-9b model is very tempting. What are the drawbacks? I heard there is a per minute and per day limit right? Do you usually hit it?”

“Omg I'm so happy. Kimi is an amazing model—insane that it's free now.”

“Every time openrouter switches you to a different provider even on the same model it wipes your cache and your whole context is reloaded. I have seen it switch providers every few prompts. Once I locked it down to a specific provider per mo…”more

“I started with smaller models (Qwen, Gemma 3.6) but their output was obviously lacking compared to Sonnet. Then I tried heavier models like deepseek v4 Pro, MiniMax 2.7, and GLM 5.1 for planning, with lighter models handling the actual codi…”more

“We burned $750 in 3 days on OpenRouter — here's how to avoid our mistake! Everything — main session, cron jobs, subagent spawns — was defaulting to Claude Sonnet 4.6 at $3/M tokens. We didn't set it, didn't realize it, didn't check.”

“The time has come when I need to use several LLM APIs, and managing security keys and different APIs will be a pain. From looking for a solution, everything points to OpenRouter, but I was surprised there is no open source version.”