alt Hacker NewsOpenRouter expired my credits because they were "too old" (more than 12 months old). Didn't realize credits would rot like that.
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I wonder in how many places this is just flat-out illegal.
Me too. I hope the $4 they gained was worth more than the hundreds or thousands I could have potentially spent in the future if they hadn't deliberately alienated me.
must've been organic, non-gmo credits
That’s pretty common. While I agree it’s not ideal for users, having credits that never expire is a headache for businesses. They’d effectively owe you compute forever, which complicates accounting. It also makes pricing changes harder, since people could keep using credits they bought at much lower prices. And, of course, if credits expire before they’re used, the company ends up keeping the money without having to provide the service. At least OpenAI shows you the expiration of your credits pretty easily...
OpenRouter does that too? What kind of dystopia we got in.