alt Hacker News> I hope they can invent an AI that knows which AI model my question should target cheaply.
Isn't that the idea of OpenRouter?
> I hope they can invent an AI that knows which AI model my question should target cheaply.
Isn't that the idea of OpenRouter?
Not exactly, but yeah. OpenRouter is a unified API, directory and billing system for LLM providers.
I think you are getting confused by the term "Model Routing", which to be fair OpenRouter does support, but it's a secondary feature and it's not their business focus. Actually OpenRouter is more focused on helping you choose the best provider for a specific open model based on their history of price, speed, reliability, privacy...
The model routing is simply provided by NotDiamond.ai, there are a number of other startups in this space.
https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/model-routing