alt Hacker NewsOpenRouter is complete garbage.
Buy directly from DeepSeek's API.
You can literally get overcharged 100x on DeepSeek on OpenRouter (or more).
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patwolf • yesterday at 10:53 PM
One of the reasons I use OpenRouter is because they offer zero data retention. As far as I can tell, DeepSeek's own API doesn't support ZDR.
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BeetleB • yesterday at 10:53 PM
DeepSeek trains on your inputs. That's why people go on OpenRouter and choose ZDR providers.
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jorvi • yesterday at 10:58 PM
Or.. BYOK Deepseek because OpenRouter's UX is much nicer?
runtime_terror • yesterday at 11:21 PM
Zero Data Retention and not having company source code leak to "CHINA!" (said in Trumps annoying voice) would be two reasons not to
I'm all in for saving money and _can_ move to using DS directly from them, but maybe I am missing something here:
OpenRouter Pricing:
$0.02/M input tokens $0.60/M output tokens
DeepSeek Pricing (cache miss, off-peak):
$0.15/M Input $0.60/m output