alt Hacker NewsYou are absolutely correct, I was not aware of this. I will update the article accordingly and perhaps it's more worthwhile to stay solely on Cursor with the limited models.
Sadly Zed seems to add 10% so it's still more worthwhile to use OpenRouter.
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cedws • today at 10:57 AM
I feel like a bit of an idiot because I didn’t know this either. I just assumed OR was another startup burning money to provide models at cost.
OpenRouter is a valuable service but I’ll probably try to run my own router going forward.
Kelteseth • today at 10:21 AM
Come on at least write the Hackernews replies yourself.
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Look again, they don't charge that fee until after "1M requests per month" whatever that means? Oh that's if you bring your own provider keys.
https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/auth/byok