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Mixed
Comment on: GPT-6.1 TerraHacker News comment
Could not test GPT-6.1 Terra on OpenRouter because no provider met the ZDR requirement, unlike other OpenAI models.
"Intended to test it with openrouter, but no provider meets the ZDR requirement…"
Counts toward
Negative
Comment on: Root shell on Samsung TVHacker News comment
DeepSeek Flash through Deepinfra on OpenRouter scored far worse than at DeepSeek even with exact routing set, so the provider choice matters.
Positive
Comment on: Genie 4Hacker News comment
Only tries Google's new models through OpenRouter because direct access from Google is too awkward.
Positive
My setup: GPT-6.1 Terra, Claude Opus 5.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen 3.8 Flash via OpenRouter.X post
Ran four models through OpenRouter on defensive tasks and billed US$1.03 for 60 Claude Opus 5.5 runs, US$0.35 for GPT-6.1 Terra, and about US$0.05 each for DeepSeek and Qwen over 100 runs.
"My setup: GPT-6.1 Terra, Claude Opus 5.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen 3.8 Flash via OpenRouter. Each got a bash tool and 6 defensive tasks, all on hardware I own. Commands logged, never executed. My bill per model: Opus $1.03 (60 runs), Terra $0.35, DeepSeek $0.055, Qwen $0.048 (100 runs each)."
Negative
OpenRouter has all these models ending in :free. Can I just use them forever?X post
Free models stop at 50 requests a day, which one chatty agent reaches before lunch; a one-time credit purchase raises the cap.
"Run one slightly chatty agent and you will hit it before lunch."
Counts toward
Negative
from the user side it doesn't feel like low demand, it feels like rate limitsX post
Built a Pi extension to resume sessions automatically after hitting usage limits, which feel like rate limits from the user side.
"…from the user side it doesn't feel like low demand, it feels like rate limits. i literally built a pi extension just to auto-resume sessions after hitting usage limits."
Mixed
OpenRouter's serving configurations show most providers on NVFP4 or MXFP4 precision, so buyers optimizing only for speed and price are in for a surprise.
"If you take one peek at OpenRouter and expand to check the serving configs…"
Not counted
Its author is an inference engineer at SpaceXAI, whose models OpenRouter sells. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.
Positive
Comment on: Anthropic S-1Hacker News comment
Codes on local models and switches to OpenRouter from the harness when a task needs more speed or capability, spending about a dollar at a time.
"I'm satisfied with it for the most part, which isn't to say that local models can't be slow or don't do dumb shit that show their comparative lack of intelligence sometimes. But when I need speed or intelligence, I just press ctrl+p in my harness and spend a buck on OpenRouter. It's my belief that we will (or probably have) hit a point where the majority of us receive diminishing returns from the sota models for the work we do. I don't need Astra or Mythos just to write some crud apps or refactor react to svelte, for example."
Mixed
Do you mean that openrouter is not passing full potential of model?X post
Finds output quality through OpenRouter good, but network errors left tasks unfinished and still billed.
"With openrouter i think quality is good but I had some network errors which left me with undone task and bill for that."
Negative
Stopped using OpenRouter for same reason, slowness & errors.X post
Stopped using OpenRouter over slowness and errors.
"Stopped using OpenRouter for same reason, slowness & errors."
Negative
i tried running debug with ai - heres the findings:Reddit comment
OpenRouter recognized the free Qwen 3.8 27B model, but its live catalog returned zero endpoints, which blocked the app.
Positive
Lazy-Loading Reasoning Chunks in Documedic CDSSDEV Community post
Documedic's NestJS backend calls OpenRouter to generate the reasoning behind each clinical recommendation and stores it in PostgreSQL.
Positive
BYSELF uses OpenRouter for model access, so one prompt reaches up to 16 models from one balance, and shows each host's retention policy before a prompt is sent.
Counts toward
Positive
Coding setupReddit post
Uses OpenRouter models for coding through GitHub Copilot and Kilo Code in VS Code.
"I use openrouter models for coding with GH Copilot or Kilo Code with VS Code."
Counts toward
Mixed
My first test on Openrouter was to use PiPar-Bench, which is chat related benchmark.Reddit comment
Ran a chat benchmark through OpenRouter: Claude Opus 5.5 scored highest at about US$0.027 per answer and GPT-6 Sol answered fastest at a 3.7 s median.
"My first test on Openrouter was to use PiPar-Bench, which is chat related benchmark. Does not look so good. Note! Bench contains tests with finnish language to test model's non-english capability and the Minimax loses points there a lot. Not an option to PiPar app. |Model|Quality|Bench|Conversation|Persona|Cost / answer|Median time| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |||||||| |Claude Opus 5.5|4.54|86.3|91.4|86.7|$0.0271|10.1 s| |GPT-6 Sol|4.15|85.7|86.3|83.2|$0.0155|3.7 s| |Claude Haiku 5.5|3.92|87.4|71.0|86.2|$0.0007|4.9 s| |DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017|3.77|84.6|81.3|83.1|$0.0014|8.0 s| |Mistral Large 4|2.00|63.2|59.6|79.5|$0.0065|17.1 s| |MiniMax M3.1 Flash|1.62|59.9|54.7|74.7|$0.0015|18.8 s|…"
Mixed
Top up OpenRouter creditGitHub issue
With GLM-5.2 through OpenRouter as its only model route, the project's cycles fail when the prepaid balance runs dry, so an evening job checks the balance and alerts.
Positive
Built LLM Radar on OpenRouter's public data to track token consumption, host share, and live prices across 400+ OpenRouter models, as a view of what developers actually run.
Negative
Openrouter call hangs indefinitelyGitHub issue
A chunk translation request to OpenRouter hangs indefinitely with no error.
Negative
My account shows -$563??Reddit post
Went to bed with about US$15 of credit and woke to US$563 of usage, which the user thinks came from a leaked key.
"I went to bed with around $15 in my OpenRouter account, and woke up this morning to see $563 in usage."
Mixed
Our tool told a customer their contract does not auto-renewReddit post
OpenRouter context compression, left on for every request, dropped the middle of a 64-page contract and the tool answered wrongly; a week of logs showed 212 short questions routed to a model too small for them. Endpoints then had to be checked one by one, since some hosts serve less context than the model has.
Negative
Provider GMICloud is spoofing models and inflating tokensReddit post
With DeepSeek V3.2 pinned to GMICloud, the user reports the provider appeared to serve a cheaper model and bill hidden injected system prompts.
"…the provider appears to be spoofing the model with a cheaper alternative and charging users for hidden injected system prompts on every single request…"
Mixed
llm: switch the DM model to Haiku 5.5, audit and plan (issue #633)GitHub issue
An audit of the game's OpenRouter traffic found a prompt cache hit rate of about 1%, so the maintainer merged cache breakpoints and planned a move to Claude Haiku 5.5 with the old model kept as a fallback.
"Set OPENROUTER_TEXT_MODEL=anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 in prod env (keep google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite in OPENROUTER_FALLBACK_MODELS)."
Positive
built a self hostable ai support bot with an inbox and i love itReddit post
momo is single-tenant: each operator brings their own model through OpenRouter and the data stays on their server.
Counts toward
Positive
For me spending 10$ on openrouter then using the free models with Pi harness is working fine.Reddit comment
After buying US$10 of credits, OpenRouter's free models work for guided coding in the Pi harness within the daily limits.
"For me spending 10$ on openrouter then using the free models with Pi harness is working fine. I don't ask it to build me GTA 6 with no mistakes, but I go along and guide it through all of the changes that I want which otherwise would have taken me more time to to manually. It depends on what are your expectations with it, but with the available limits it works ok."
Negative
What is pi harness and how do i use it?Reddit comment
Bought US$10 of credits and found every free model either errors or hits its limit very fast.
"What is pi harness and how do i use it? I also dropped 10 bucks at openrouter, but all ai free model eithe rgige that error or hits limit very fast…"
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Show HN: HarmoNova: A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for ChromeHacker News comment
Built HarmoNova's article and discussion summaries on OpenRouter with the user's own key.
Counts toward
Negative
I had something similar happen today when trying to get z-ai/glm-5.3-flash to reorganize a 200ish KB wiki.Reddit comment
GLM 5.3 Flash started looping halfway through a wiki task; the activity log showed one provider served the bad output, and the commenter blocked that provider.
"I had something similar happen today when trying to get z-ai/glm-5.3-flash to reorganize a 200ish KB wiki. About halfway through reading the files, it freaked out and started looping. I switched to a different model to redo the task, and then looking back in my OR activity, I see that nonsense was indeed served by Open Inference. (The other model was mimo-v2.5-pro, almost as cheap as glm-5.3-flash and it did an excellent though not perfect job. Open Inference does not offer that model so my prompts were not routed to them) I blocked them in my OpenRouter preferences after seeing this thread; not worth the risk."
Positive
LLM Food Recognition in Production: What Shipping soba Taught MeDEV Community post
soba sends every recognition call through OpenRouter with a model fallback list and strict JSON Schema, at US$0.005 to US$0.01 per scan and 2.6 to 6 seconds per scan in production.
Positive
Guys, did you see the inference price war for open weight models in openrouter?X post
Sees providers on OpenRouter racing open-weight inference prices toward zero.
"It’s bloody war to compete on the lowest price."
Negative
I noticed Claude Code uses its models silentlyReddit post
Credits burned quickly with Claude Code on Qwen models through OpenRouter because the tool also called other models in the background.
"I use Qwen models, but I noticed my credits get burned quickly."
Mixed
Somehow, I am in debtReddit post
The account balance went negative by US$1.09, so prepaid credits did not work as a hard stop.
"Apparently mine chose to extend me $1.09 of unsecured credit instead."
Negative
A routed model produced endless nonsense, and most of the tokens were billed as reasoning.
"Most of the tokens were billed as reasoning."
Mixed
I built an Android app that warns me before I run out of OpenRouter credits (BYOK, no account)Reddit post
Runs a few small projects on OpenRouter and kept being surprised by a 402 error mid-workflow or an unwatched bill, which led to a phone app with low-balance alerts and spend trends.
Negative
OpenRouter stream interruptionGitHub issue
Long responses through OpenRouter break off with a stream closed before completion error, and the maintainer records the serving host and timing before changing exclusions.
Negative
I spent $100+ in 3 weeks on OpenRouter (vs. $33/month for Claude)Reddit post
Spent more than US$100 in three weeks on OpenRouter against the US$33 a month a Claude subscription had cost.
Positive
Beatstack - a local-first Mac app for planning a screenplay, no account and no cloudReddit post
Beatstack's AI help runs on the writer's own OpenRouter key, with three free passes for those without one, so no project data sits on the maker's server.
Counts toward
Mixed
Would love this. Don't even need a wide range of models.X post
Piqoid runs open models through OpenRouter today and sets reliability as the bar any replacement must meet.
"We use openrouter currently, and this would be AT LEAST no worse than that (if reliable etc ofc)…"
Mixed
OpenRouter presets (@preset/...) always show $0 cost in Cline CLIGitHub issue
Cline CLI records zero cost on every turn with OpenRouter presets while OpenRouter bills the requests normally, so local cost tracking misses real spend.
"Cline CLI records `totalCost: 0` for every turn, even though token usage is tracked correctly and OpenRouter bills the requests normally."
Positive
I got tired of paying monthly for AI wrappers, so I built a BYOK desktop companion.Reddit post
Built Nib around the user's own OpenRouter key, so the user controls API costs and switches models with no markup and no subscription.
Positive
K-TL;DR uses OpenRouter for its LLM calls, with the daily quota enforced server-side so the client cannot fake its limits.
Positive
I built an AI assistant you use entirely by email. No app, no account, no login.Reddit post
Penpal answers every email with DeepSeek V4 Flash called through OpenRouter, on a Go and Postgres backend.
Mixed
Setting Up Pi With DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on OpenRouterPersonal blog post, vincentschmalbach.com
Reading Pi's session logs against OpenRouter's generation API showed the setup paying about 3 times what it should, from cache misses across hosts; pinning one host with session affinity fixed it.
Negative
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Strict JSON output does not work on every endpoint of a model, so each endpoint has to be tested and then allowlisted one by one.
"…using strict json output also does not work on all the endpoints of the models…"
Negative
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Stopped using OpenClaw with OpenRouter because results for the same prompt were inconsistent, and only later learned providers differ.
"I was using OpenClaw with open router, but stopped because how inconsistent the results were over the same prompt."
Negative
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Someone used the commenter's key from Singapore and spent US$100 against a US$10 daily limit, which also got the account blocked from frontier-lab models; the key had no IP or country restriction.
Negative
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Finds OpenRouter unreliable enough that providers have to be pinned, and even pinned providers are not swappable for one another.
"It’s just incredibly unreliable and you are forced to pin providers and even then it can be a crapshoot as the author found."
Mixed
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Provider variance is a problem of serving LLMs in general; OpenRouter at least lets a user swap providers quickly and keep the same credits.
Mixed
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Keeps using OpenRouter because prepaid top-ups prevent runaway costs and one account reaches many models, while quality on GLM 5.3 Flash swings noticeably.
Negative
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Sees HTTP 200 responses with no answer and rate limits by IP in production; fallback does not trigger on empty streams, so DeepSeek had to be pinned as the provider.
Mixed
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Uses OpenRouter to test many models through one API in development, and would call the first-party provider in production, which is usually cheaper.
Mixed
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Rates OpenRouter highly for quick tests and trying many models, and points production traffic at a single inference host instead.
Positive
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Sets, hits, and depends on OpenRouter's key limits regularly and has never seen one fail.
"I set, hit, and depend on those limits regularly."
Counts toward
Negative
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Uses OpenRouter only to benchmark models; production calls OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI directly, since input caching alone justifies direct integrations.
Mixed
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Treats OpenRouter as a central point to reach chosen providers and pins every model; unpinned, some providers failed most requests, cut responses short, or ran heavily quantized weights.
"I treat OpenRouter as a central point to access specific providers. Pinning is a given for that use case."
Positive
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Keeps one balance and one card across model providers on OpenRouter for quick iteration, then writes each integration into an own router, partly because OpenRouter's caching often falls short.
"OpenRouter has the advantage that I can maintain a single balance across model providers…"
Negative
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Finds DigitalOcean reliably bad through OpenRouter and Fireworks good or bad depending on the model and the day.
"DigitalOcean (at least through OpenRouter) is pretty reliably bad in my experience."
Positive
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Runs OpenRouter in production with about 10 providers allowlisted by location and ZDR policy and reports it reliable, valuing one place for spend, policies, and logs.
Negative
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Wants OpenRouter to show per-provider quality, since providers can cut quantization or cache precision to win on price and speed.
Mixed
Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?Hacker News comment
Sees OpenRouter's value in one place for policy controls and price-based model selection, and notes that forced pinning undercuts it.
"I think OpenRouter’s value proposition is less about avoiding two hour developer tasks and more about having a single place to establish policy controls…"
Mixed
So you want to use OpenRouter?Personal blog post, simonwillison.net
Notes that hosts behind one OpenRouter model run different serving software and can behave differently, and points to provider.only and the endpoints API for controlling which host serves a request.
Positive
LeadHunter AI Desk writes cold emails on the user's own OpenRouter key; with DeepSeek, 1,000 customized emails cost less than US$0.05 in API tokens.
Negative
Comment on: DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 proHacker News comment
Found the latency distribution on OpenRouter unusable for DeepSeek V4 Flash.
"I found the latency distribution on OpenRouter to be unusable for DeepSeek v4 Flash."
Positive
I built Juice: A fully open-source, browser-based AI coding agent (Uses AI Studio & OpenRouter)Reddit post
Juice supports Google AI Studio and OpenRouter as its model sources and sends code from the browser straight to the API the user picks.
Mixed
So you want to use OpenRouter?Engineering blog post, mmoustafa.com
Olly runs a third of its traffic on open models through OpenRouter, and its founder reports OpenRouter's per-host benchmarks scoring the same DeepSeek weights 90% on GPQA at DeepSeek and 75% at DigitalOcean. Pinning three providers with fallbacks off took Olly down within two weeks.
Mixed
DeepSeek V4 Flash across 14 providers: cost, speed and cachingBenchmark write-up, inference.academy
OpenRouter's automatic routing sent repeated prompts to different upstreams, so its warm-cache requests cost more than the cheapest pinned route even though it still got substantial cache hits.
Positive
Comment on: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?Hacker News comment
Runs Qwen 3.8 Max through OpenRouter in autolith and has Claude Code check the commits, and finds it a strong performer.
Positive
Model routing with OpenRouter and DeepSeek to cut costs without losing qualityDEV Community post
Runs production model routing with OpenRouter as the single access layer, sending classification, extraction and summaries to DeepSeek and only quality-critical requests to Claude.
Positive
Comment on: GPT-6 AstraHacker News comment
Tests new models from the LLM tool, and calls any model on OpenRouter straight away through the llm-openrouter plugin.
Negative
pi: OpenRouter finish_reason:"error" is never retried, kills the turnGitHub issue
An upstream provider error reaches the client as a finished response with an error reason, which Pi never retries, so one flaky provider ends the whole agent turn.
"One flaky upstream and the whole turn is gone."
Positive
Preserve OpenRouter actual cost, cost details, BYOK flag, and serving providerGitHub issue
Asks Pi to keep the authoritative usage accounting OpenRouter returns on streamed responses, including cost, BYOK flag, and the provider that served the call.
"OpenRouter includes authoritative usage accounting on streamed completion responses…"
Counts toward
Positive
[FEATURE] Honor provider-reported cost (usage.cost) from LLM gateways (OpenRouter, LiteLLM, Manifest)GitHub issue
Asks OpenCode to prefer the actual US dollar cost per request from OpenRouter's usage block over its own static price table.
Counts toward
Negative
[BUG] OpenRouter prompt caching misses because Zoo does not send cache session affinityGitHub issue
Prompt caching through OpenRouter stopped producing cache hits during multi-turn Zoo Code tasks because the client sent no session affinity, which raises the cost of long tasks.
"Prompt caching for OpenRouter can stop producing cache hits during multi-turn Zoo Code tasks."
Negative
LiteLLM: OpenRouter Integration and Fallbacks ConfigurationEngineering blog post, RTFM
Rolling OpenRouter out to a test production environment brought 429 errors, so the team added fallbacks to OpenAI through LiteLLM.
Mixed
Comment on: Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmarkHacker News comment
Built an SVG generation page that needs the user's OpenRouter key, and warns that running it across models can burn quite a bit of money.
Negative
Comment on: Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaperHacker News comment
Calls OpenRouter-style failover useless outside sandbox testing, because production agents depend on model-specific quirks and models are not interchangeable.
"…services like OpenRouter that promise “failover” are pretty much useless except for sandbox testing because models in production are not really interchangeable…"
Positive
Comment on: Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub CopilotHacker News comment
Works at GitHub and still often uses OpenRouter models in the Copilot CLI and app through bring-your-own-model support.
Positive
Ditching Claude for OpenCode and OpenRouterPersonal blog post, ianwootten.co.uk
Replaced a Claude subscription with OpenCode and DeepSeek V4 Flash on OpenRouter for a month, spending US$16.64 over 5,000 requests and 282 million tokens, though sessions above 100,000 tokens slowed down.
Positive
Comment on: AI DevOps Engine, bot posts PR fixes after testing in network-isolated DockerHacker News comment
Generates patches through OpenRouter with data collection denied on every request and secrets stripped before inference, as part of a zero-retention design.
Mixed
Comment on: Openrouter Fusion APIHacker News comment
Built a multi-model Fusion MCP on OpenRouter and found after benchmarking that one model judging another's answer does not produce a better answer.
Negative
Hosting OpenClaw: a money trap and two silent failuresDEV Community post
Turning on Always use for this provider with a BYOK key did not stop OpenRouter from falling back to another host when the key failed, which spent OpenRouter credits on a host he never picked.
Positive
Vibe-coding shareable, infinitely scalable personal appsPersonal blog post, type2fun.net
Builds static personal apps where each user signs in to OpenRouter with OAuth PKCE and brings their own AI spend, which no frontier lab's API makes as easy.
Positive
Comment on: Open Code Review, An AI-powered code review CLI toolHacker News comment
Ran Coducky on the 50-PR Martian code review benchmark with Qwen 3.7 Plus through OpenRouter for about US$7 and scored 43.0% precision and 35.8% recall.
Mixed
Planned jobquisitor.com's unit cost around one model, and when OpenRouter switched the default provider mid-build the per-CV cost doubled overnight, which led to a tiered pool of API keys so trial usage cannot burn the paid budget.
Mixed
A weekly tool-use test is the only signalDEV Community post
A weekly tool-use test across OpenRouter's free models shows reliability changing under a stable model name: Nemotron 3 Super passed 26 clean runs in a row while two Qwen models never passed.
Positive
Comment on: OpenRouter raises $113M Series BHacker News comment
Calling a single provider brings outages in production, and OpenRouter switching between providers protects uptime; it also exposes real cost and speed differences between hosts of the same model.
Positive
The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large marginPersonal blog post, minimaxir.com
Calls OpenRouter exceedingly useful for reaching new models through one API, and values its public usage rankings because the labs keep that data private.
Negative
Comment on: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanentHacker News comment
Constantly gets provider-not-available errors for DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro through OpenRouter and doubts there is capacity for production traffic.
Positive
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouterPersonal blog post, williamangel.net
Works out that running Gemma 4 31B on his own MacBook Pro costs more per token than OpenRouter, which serves comparable models at about a third of the price and twice the speed.
Positive
How I built a secure AI voice journal with AES-256 and Mistral, but hit a wall on monetization.Reddit post
Routes iListen's AI calls through OpenRouter to Mistral models, chosen because Mistral is EU-based and fits the app's GDPR-first design.
Mixed
LLM routing per tier via OpenRouter, when one model doesn't fit allDEV Community post
Routes HoneyChat's tiers across models through OpenRouter and found some model and host pairs return an empty completion with a content_filter finish reason, so retries must catch empty replies and HTTP errors.
Mixed
Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code spend to Zed and OpenRouterPersonal blog post, braw.dev
Moved a US$100 monthly Claude subscription to a US$10 Zed plan plus a US$90 monthly OpenRouter top-up on ZDR-only endpoints, then corrected the post after finding OpenRouter's 5.5% fee.
"Instead of $100/month for Claude, pay $10/month for Zed editor and set up a monthly $90 top up to OpenRouter."
Mixed
Comment on: Openrouter Going Rogue?Hacker News comment
Treats OpenRouter as a development and chat tool for trying many models; for anything close to production, fix a model version and call the provider's own API.
"I’ve always thought of Openrouter as a useful tool for development and chat…"
Positive
Comment on: Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromisedHacker News comment
Switched from LiteLLM to OpenRouter about a year earlier because LiteLLM kept causing outages, and felt lucky after the March 2026 compromise.
Counts toward
Positive
I built an AI listing optimizer for Etsy/Amazon sellers and just hit my first paying usersReddit post
Selloquence generates marketplace listings with multiple AI models through OpenRouter and has its first paying users; model selection mattered less to users than tag generation and SEO scoring.
Mixed
I built a tool that turns plain English into fully-researched and source-cited structured datasetsReddit post
Warns that if Ampsheet stops working, earlier visitors have drained its OpenRouter account, since the prepaid balance funds every user's research runs.
Negative
Comment on: Kagi AssistantsHacker News comment
The team does not run on OpenRouter because it would break their privacy policy, and signs its own deals with providers for production models.
Positive
Comment on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)Hacker News comment
Kilo Code's hiring post says the coding agent ranks first on OpenRouter with 500,000+ downloads and 4.9 trillion tokens used per month.
"Already ranked #1 on OpenRouter, with 500K+ downloads and 4.9 trillion tokens used per month…"
Mixed
OpenRouter drops fees in response to Vercel's AI GatewayCompany blog post, Coplay
Coplay likes OpenRouter for one key across providers and its public usage rankings, and notes the 5.5% fee on credit purchases that OpenRouter changed for BYOK after Vercel launched a gateway with no markup.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Mixed
Price swings on OpenRouter might surprise youNewsletter post, Price Per Token
In 22 days of daily price scrapes, 17% of the models on OpenRouter set a new price floor for input or output tokens, with open-weight models moving more than OpenAI's and Anthropic's.
Positive
3 Months of Kilo Code: from Zero to Top 3 on OpenRouterCompany blog post, Kilo Blog
Kilo Code's first hire reports the coding agent reached third place on OpenRouter's weekly app rankings three months after launch, and counts the ranking among the team's milestones.
Positive
RubyLLM 1.3.0: Smarter Attachments, Multi-Tenancy, and No More Manual Model TrackingPersonal blog post, paolino.me
Adds OpenRouter as a provider in RubyLLM 1.3.0, pitching it as one API key for hundreds of models.
Counts toward
Positive
Breaking Free from AI Subscriptions: Cost-Effective All-in-One Solution with OpenRouterDEV Community post
Replaced Copilot and Tabnine chat with OpenRouter for occasional use and finds it affordable, while noting that heavy agentic use of expensive models can make a subscription cheaper.
Pages from OpenRouter, used to check facts for every group.
Lists Free, Standard (5.5% fee on credit purchases), Business (8%) and Enterprise, the US$25,000 monthly BYOK allowance with a 5% fee after it, and which plans include budgets, prompt caching, in-region routing, and SSO.
States SOC 2 Type II and a DPA with SCCs, SSO and SCIM, contractual SLAs, and that prompts are not logged by default.
Documents provider ordering, allowlists, ignore lists, and the allow_fallbacks switch for each request.
Documents falling back to other models when the first choice errors or is rate limited.
Documents routing only to endpoints that retain no data, per request or account-wide.
Documents per-workspace budget limits, model and provider allowlists, ZDR enforcement, data regions on Business and Enterprise, and prompt-injection and PII filters.
Documents the request-level log of each generation with model, provider, cost, latency, and the organization member whose key made it.
States free-model caps of 20 requests per minute and 50 per day, 1,000 per day after a US$10 credit purchase, and that a negative balance blocks requests.
Source index
Every source GILD read, with the original address and the context used to count it. Open a finding to filter the full cards above. On smaller screens the index lists each source once by name, cohort and date; its full record above carries the address, context and findings.
| Source | Original URL | Author and context | Who | Published | Review date | Applies | Findings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comment on: GPT-6.1 TerraID or-46 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | snvzz, Hacker News commenterself-described: Testing a new model under a ZDR requirement | Individual builder | Published Oct 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Root shell on Samsung TVID or-47 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Roark66, Hacker News commenterself-described: Benchmarks against local inference | Individual builder | Published Oct 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Genie 4ID or-48 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | alex_sf, Hacker News commenterself-described: Trying new models | Individual builder | Published Oct 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| My setup: GPT-6.1 Terra, Claude Opus 5.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen 3.8 Flash via OpenRouter.ID or-64 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | AI Penguin, AI routing account that audits its own setupself-described: A self-run refusal test on owned hardware | Individual builder | Published Oct 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| OpenRouter has all these models ending in :free. Can I just use them forever?ID or-65 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | AMPM-AIOPS, AI builder running an agent business in publicself-described: Agents on free models | Individual builder | Published Oct 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| from the user side it doesn't feel like low demand, it feels like rate limitsID or-69 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | drumst0ck, open-source developerself-described: Pi coding sessions | Individual builder | Published Oct 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| So many enterprises and customers are in for a surprise if TPS and cost are the only thing they optimize for when choosing an inference provider.ID or-70 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Gaurav, inference engineer at SpaceXAIself-described: Inference provider selection | Technical leadership | Published Oct 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | Not counted. Its author is an inference engineer at SpaceXAI, whose models OpenRouter sells. |
| Comment on: Anthropic S-1ID or-45 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | nozzlegear, Hacker News commenterself-described: Local models for daily coding, with OpenRouter on demand | Individual builder | Published Oct 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Do you mean that openrouter is not passing full potential of model?ID or-66 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Michal, X userself-described: OpenCode tasks through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Oct 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Stopped using OpenRouter for same reason, slowness & errors.ID or-67 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Jay Brunet, System Admin and Developer at SRVpressself-described: SRVpress | Product or platform team | Published Oct 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| i tried running debug with ai - heres the findings:ID or-62 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | in-void, r/openrouter memberself-described: An app calling a free Qwen model | Individual builder | Published Oct 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Lazy-Loading Reasoning Chunks in Documedic CDSSID or-84 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Subhendu Das, builder of Documedicself-described: Documedic, a clinical decision support system whose backend generates recommendations through the OpenRouter API | Individual builder | Published Oct 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| 4 months, no coding background, solo, my desktop app that sends one prompt to 16 AI models went live todayID or-112 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | georgos_pappas, founder of BYSELF in Dubaiself-described: BYSELF, a desktop app that sends one prompt to up to 16 models | Individual builder | Published Oct 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Coding setupID or-61 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | gabrielgbs97, r/openrouter memberself-described: Coding with GitHub Copilot and Kilo Code in VS Code | Individual builder | Published Oct 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| My first test on Openrouter was to use PiPar-Bench, which is chat related benchmark.ID or-60 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | mvaranka, r/openrouter memberself-described: Chat benchmark across six models for the PiPar app | Individual builder | Published Oct 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Top up OpenRouter creditID or-101 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Ahmed Elghareeb, maintainer of tradeHalalLLMself-described: tradeHalalLLM, a trading assistant whose every cycle runs on GLM-5.2 through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Oct 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I built a free tool to track real-world OpenRouter LLM token usage, provider market share, and API costsID or-111 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Chippytime_com, developer who built LLM Radar at chippytime.comself-described: LLM Radar, which reads OpenRouter's public token and price data | Individual builder | Published Oct 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Openrouter call hangs indefinitelyID or-99 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Ze-hs, maintainer of TextFlow-Translateself-described: TextFlow-Translate, which translates text in chunks through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Oct 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| My account shows -$563??ID or-59 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Ronin_Spect, r/openrouter memberself-described: A personal account with about US$15 of credit | Individual builder | Published Oct 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Our tool told a customer their contract does not auto-renewID or-110 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Mysterious-Bison3735, backend developer at a two-person company selling a contract question toolself-described: A B2B contract question tool with all model calls through OpenRouter | Small product team | Published Oct 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Provider GMICloud is spoofing models and inflating tokensID or-58 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | moral3jo, r/openrouter memberself-described: DeepSeek V3.2 pinned to one provider | Individual builder | Published Oct 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| llm: switch the DM model to Haiku 5.5, audit and plan (issue #633)ID or-04 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Garblesnarff, maintainer of the Infinite Realms appself-described: Infinite Realms, a game whose production DM model runs through OpenRouter with fallback models | Individual builder | Published Oct 14, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| built a self hostable ai support bot with an inbox and i love itID or-115 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | ShakaLaka_Around, developer of the momo support botself-described: momo, a self-hosted support bot on Docker Compose | Individual builder | Published Oct 14, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| For me spending 10$ on openrouter then using the free models with Pi harness is working fine.ID or-55 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Andrew_C0, r/openrouter memberself-described: Guided coding on free models with the Pi harness | Individual builder | Published Oct 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| What is pi harness and how do i use it?ID or-56 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Top-Royal5255, r/openrouter memberself-described: Free models after a US$10 credit purchase | Individual builder | Published Oct 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Show HN: HarmoNova: A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for ChromeID or-92 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | chaosmanage, author of HarmoNovaself-described: HarmoNova's AI summaries, which run on the user's own OpenRouter key | Individual builder | Published Oct 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I had something similar happen today when trying to get z-ai/glm-5.3-flash to reorganize a 200ish KB wiki.ID or-51 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | m477m, r/openrouter memberself-described: Reorganizing a 200 KB wiki with GLM 5.3 Flash | Individual builder | Published Oct 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| LLM Food Recognition in Production: What Shipping soba Taught MeID or-85 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Maksim Danilchenko, builder of the soba iOS appself-described: soba, an iOS app that estimates carbs from meal photos, with every recognition call routed through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Oct 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Guys, did you see the inference price war for open weight models in openrouter?ID or-72 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | Xiaoyin Qu, founder of agentskyself-described: Open-weight inference prices | Technical leadership | Published Oct 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I noticed Claude Code uses its models silentlyID or-52 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Accomplished_Fixx, r/openrouter memberself-described: Claude Code pointed at Qwen models on OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Oct 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Somehow, I am in debtID or-53 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | craterIII, r/openrouter memberself-described: Prepaid OpenRouter credits | Individual builder | Published Oct 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Has anyone else had endlessly nonsense output from Open Inference? (GLM 5.3 Flash / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash)ID or-50 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | icandela, r/openrouter memberself-described: Agent tasks on cheap open models | Individual builder | Published Oct 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I built an Android app that warns me before I run out of OpenRouter credits (BYOK, no account)ID or-107 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | AltruisticAd1286, maker of an OpenRouter credit-monitor app for Androidself-described: A few small projects on OpenRouter credits | Individual builder | Published Sep 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| OpenRouter stream interruptionID or-100 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Jaeho Cho, maintainer of the jaehho/dotfiles agent setupself-described: Claude Code sessions routed through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Sep 29, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I spent $100+ in 3 weeks on OpenRouter (vs. $33/month for Claude)ID or-49 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | UranusSeizure, r/openrouter memberself-described: Personal coding use after leaving a Claude subscription | Individual builder | Published Sep 29, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Beatstack - a local-first Mac app for planning a screenplay, no account and no cloudID or-118 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | TextAveryAI, maker of Beatstack (beatstack.io)self-described: Beatstack, a local-first screenplay planning app | Individual builder | Published Sep 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Would love this. Don't even need a wide range of models.ID or-71 | Developer Communities | x.com/ | BotDitya, builder at Piqoidself-described: Piqoid, using open models through OpenRouter | Small product team | Published Sep 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| OpenRouter presets (@preset/...) always show $0 cost in Cline CLIID or-07 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | alexnsolo, Cline CLI userself-described: Cline CLI with OpenRouter presets | Individual builder | Published Sep 23, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I got tired of paying monthly for AI wrappers, so I built a BYOK desktop companion.ID or-114 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | info_breaker, developer of the Nib desktop companionself-described: Nib, a Windows AI companion that runs on the user's OpenRouter key | Individual builder | Published Sep 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I built a Chrome extension 'K-TL;DR' that summarizes any article in your own language, launching on Product Hunt todayID or-109 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | krzychuman, solo founder of the K-TL;DR Chrome extensionself-described: K-TL;DR, a summarizer extension with a free daily quota | Individual builder | Published Sep 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I built an AI assistant you use entirely by email. No app, no account, no login.ID or-108 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | newzinoapp, developer who built the Penpal email assistantself-described: Penpal, an AI assistant that answers by email, with a paid tier | Individual builder | Published Sep 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Setting Up Pi With DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on OpenRouterID or-78 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.vincentschmalbach.com/ | Vincent Schmalbach, software developer building vroni.comself-described: Pi with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on OpenRouter as a fallback when Codex and Claude Code limits run out | Individual builder | Published Sep 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-21 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | alexcz, Hacker News commenterself-described: Structured output across providers | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-22 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | _ink_, Hacker News commenterself-described: OpenClaw agent on OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-23 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | CubsFan1060, Hacker News commenterself-described: A personal API key with a US$10 daily limit | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-25 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | joshstrange, Hacker News commenterself-described: Small personal OpenRouter use | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-27 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | bakugo, Hacker News commenterself-described: Meta-provider routing in general | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-30 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Macha, Hacker News commenterself-described: Personal use with GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-31 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mesmertech, Hacker News commenterself-described: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in a production app | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-32 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | maeln, Hacker News commenterself-described: Development and model testing | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-33 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | miki123211, Hacker News commenterself-described: Model evaluation and quick integrations | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-34 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | nhecker, Hacker News commenterself-described: Personal OpenRouter keys with spend limits | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-36 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | artursapek, Hacker News commenterself-described: A production app with direct provider integrations | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-38 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Aurornis, Hacker News commenterself-described: OpenRouter as one access point to specific providers | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-39 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | arjie, Hacker News commenterself-described: Quick iteration across providers beside an own router for on-prem models | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-40 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | svachalek, Hacker News commenterself-described: Provider choice on OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-41 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | habosa, Hacker News commenterself-described: A production product with about 10 allowlisted providers and a few frontier models | Small product team | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-42 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Gracana, Hacker News commenterself-described: Provider choice on OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-44 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | jeremyjh, Hacker News commenterself-described: Policy controls across providers | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-81 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | simonwillison.net/ | Simon Willison, author of Simon Willison's Weblog and creator of the LLM toolself-described: Link-blog note on Olly's write-up about host variance | Individual builder | Published Sep 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Tired of paying 50 bucks/mo for cold email SaaS tools, so I built a 3.3MB native Windows desktop app powered by DeepSeek & VisualNEO Win (Free & Open Source)ID or-113 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | luissinlios, developer of LeadHunter AI Deskself-described: LeadHunter AI Desk, a local Windows outreach app on the user's OpenRouter key | Individual builder | Published Sep 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 proID or-19 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | iamjs, Hacker News commenterself-described: DeepSeek V4 Flash through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Sep 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I built Juice: A fully open-source, browser-based AI coding agent (Uses AI Studio & OpenRouter)ID or-117 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Own-Transition-1595, developer of the Juice coding agentself-described: Juice, a browser-based coding agent on the user's own keys | Individual builder | Published Sep 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| So you want to use OpenRouter?ID or-01 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | mmoustafa.com/ | Mo Moustafa, founder of Ollyself-described: Olly, an iMessage assistant with over 18 million messages, about a third on open models through OpenRouter | Product or platform team | Published Sep 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash across 14 providers: cost, speed and cachingID or-82 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.inference.academy/ | Batuhan Aktas, author of inference.academyself-described: A controlled benchmark of DeepSeek V4 Flash across 14 routes, including OpenRouter's automatic routing; dated by its Hacker News post of Sep 7, 2026 | Individual builder | Published Sep 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?ID or-93 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | evanjrowley, runs the autolith coding setupself-described: Qwen 3.8 Max on OpenRouter inside autolith, with Claude Code reviewing commits | Individual builder | Published Sep 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Model routing with OpenRouter and DeepSeek to cut costs without losing qualityID or-86 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Ramón Chancay, software engineer at Desarolself-described: A production model-routing setup with DeepSeek for bulk traffic and Claude for hard cases | Individual builder | Published Sep 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: GPT-6 AstraID or-91 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | simonw, creator of the LLM command-line tool and its llm-openrouter pluginself-described: Testing new models from the command line | Individual builder | Published Sep 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| pi: OpenRouter finish_reason:"error" is never retried, kills the turnID or-09 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | haiderking1, Pi userself-described: Pi coding agent sessions through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Sep 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Preserve OpenRouter actual cost, cost details, BYOK flag, and serving providerID or-08 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | asiraky, Pi userself-described: Pi coding agent sessions through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Sep 1, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| [FEATURE] Honor provider-reported cost (usage.cost) from LLM gateways (OpenRouter, LiteLLM, Manifest)ID or-06 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | guillaumegay13, OpenCode userself-described: OpenCode sessions routed through LLM gateways | Individual builder | Published Aug 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| [BUG] OpenRouter prompt caching misses because Zoo does not send cache session affinityID or-05 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | navedmerchant, Zoo Code userself-described: Multi-turn Claude coding tasks in Zoo Code through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Aug 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| LiteLLM: OpenRouter Integration and Fallbacks ConfigurationID or-03 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | rtfm.co.ua/ | Arseny Zinchenko, DevOps engineer and RTFM authorself-described: A company rollout of OpenRouter behind LiteLLM, with OpenAI as the fallback | Product or platform team | Published Jul 31, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmarkID or-97 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | csomar, builder of codeinput.com's SVG generatorself-described: An SVG generation playground that calls models with the user's OpenRouter key | Individual builder | Published Jul 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaperID or-18 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | znnajdla, Hacker News commenterself-described: Production agent harnesses | Individual builder | Published Jul 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub CopilotID or-94 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | summarity, Hacker News commenter who works at GitHubself-described: OpenRouter models inside the Copilot CLI and app | Individual builder | Published Jul 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Ditching Claude for OpenCode and OpenRouterID or-73 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.ianwootten.co.uk/ | Ian Wootten, developer and builder of n3ws.dev and despeech.comself-described: Three side projects built in June 2026 with OpenCode and DeepSeek V4 Flash on OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Jul 1, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: AI DevOps Engine, bot posts PR fixes after testing in network-isolated DockerID or-98 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | landry-77, builder of the AI DevOps Engineself-described: A PR-fix bot that generates patches through OpenRouter with data collection denied on every request | Individual builder | Published Jun 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Openrouter Fusion APIID or-95 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | dsl, builder of a Fusion MCP server on OpenRouterself-described: A panel-of-experts MCP server built on OpenRouter before OpenRouter's own Fusion launched | Individual builder | Published Jun 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Hosting OpenClaw: a money trap and two silent failuresID or-88 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Adrien Cossa, runs an OpenClaw press-review bot on a Hetzner VPSself-described: An OpenClaw Signal bot using OpenRouter with a BYOK OpenAI key | Individual builder | Published Jun 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Vibe-coding shareable, infinitely scalable personal appsID or-79 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | type2fun.net/ | Simon Mayes, software engineer and founder of Untetherself-described: Two backend-free personal apps that call OpenRouter through its OAuth PKCE flow | Individual builder | Published Jun 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Open Code Review, An AI-powered code review CLI toolID or-96 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | jayphen, builder of the Coducky code review appself-described: Coducky run on the 50-PR Martian benchmark with Qwen 3.7 Plus through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Jun 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Built a recruiting SaaS because recruiters kept pitching me Java jobs (I don't write Java)... launched this week, looking for feedbackID or-103 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | SingularSyzygy, developer who built jobquisitor.comself-described: jobquisitor.com, a recruiting SaaS that scores CVs against job descriptions with LLM calls | Individual builder | Published Jun 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| A weekly tool-use test is the only signalID or-87 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Mirza Iqbal, n8n Ambassador and enterprise automation consultantself-described: A weekly pass-or-fail tool-use test across OpenRouter's free models | Individual builder | Published Jun 1, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: OpenRouter raises $113M Series BID or-17 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | michaelbuckbee, Hacker News commenterself-described: Production AI work across providers | Individual builder | Published May 31, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large marginID or-83 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | minimaxir.com/ | Max Woolf, author of Max Woolf's Blogself-described: Reading OpenRouter's public model rankings | Individual builder | Published May 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanentID or-16 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | adi_pradhan, Hacker News commenterself-described: DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published May 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouterID or-74 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.williamangel.net/ | William Angel, author of the Offline Agentic Coding series on williamangel.netself-described: Comparing a local M5 MacBook Pro with OpenRouter for the same open models | Individual builder | Published May 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| How I built a secure AI voice journal with AES-256 and Mistral, but hit a wall on monetization.ID or-104 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Drownambitions, developer of the iListen Android voice journalself-described: iListen, an AI voice-first journal for Android | Individual builder | Published May 11, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| LLM routing per tier via OpenRouter, when one model doesn't fit allID or-89 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | sm1ck, builder of HoneyChatself-described: HoneyChat, an AI companion product routing each tier's calls through OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Apr 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code spend to Zed and OpenRouterID or-02 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | braw.dev/ | kisamoto, developer and braw.dev authorself-described: Personal coding setup: Zed Agent and Claude Code on OpenRouter credits, ZDR endpoints only | Individual builder | Published Apr 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Openrouter Going Rogue?ID or-15 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | _kulang, Hacker News commenterself-described: Development and chat use | Individual builder | Published Mar 29, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromisedID or-10 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | chillfox, Hacker News commenterself-described: Personal and side-project model access | Individual builder | Published Mar 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I built an AI listing optimizer for Etsy/Amazon sellers and just hit my first paying usersID or-116 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Middle_Piano_4655, developer of Selloquenceself-described: Selloquence, a listing optimizer with paying users | Individual builder | Published Feb 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| I built a tool that turns plain English into fully-researched and source-cited structured datasetsID or-106 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Helpful_Style_147, developer who built Ampsheetself-described: Ampsheet, a research tool that builds cited datasets with parallel agents | Individual builder | Published Feb 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Kagi AssistantsID or-14 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | VHRanger, Hacker News commenterself-described: A consumer assistant with its own privacy policy | Small product team | Published Nov 20, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)ID or-13 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | kylewongpg14, posting for Kilo Codeself-described: Kilo Code, an open-source coding agent ranked #1 on OpenRouter with 4.9 trillion tokens a month | Product or platform team | Published Nov 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| OpenRouter drops fees in response to Vercel's AI GatewayID or-76 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | www.coplay.dev/ | Jos van der Westhuizen, Coplayself-described: Coplay, a Unity AI assistant company that follows model usage on OpenRouter | Product or platform team | Published Oct 11, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Price swings on OpenRouter might surprise youID or-80 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | newsletter.pricepertoken.com/ | Alex Ellman, author of the Price Per Token newsletterself-described: Daily scrapes of OpenRouter's model prices since July 28, 2025 | Individual builder | Published Aug 19, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| 3 Months of Kilo Code: from Zero to Top 3 on OpenRouterID or-75 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | blog.kilocode.ai/ | Justin Halsall, first hire at Kilo Codeself-described: Kilo Code, an open-source coding agent whose usage is ranked on OpenRouter | Product or platform team | Published Jun 5, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| RubyLLM 1.3.0: Smarter Attachments, Multi-Tenancy, and No More Manual Model TrackingID or-77 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | paolino.me/ | Carmine Paolino, creator of RubyLLMself-described: RubyLLM, an open-source Ruby library that added OpenRouter as a provider | Individual builder | Published Jun 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Breaking Free from AI Subscriptions: Cost-Effective All-in-One Solution with OpenRouterID or-90 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | PH Saurav, software engineer at CodeChemistself-described: Coding chat in Neovim through OpenRouter, replacing Copilot and Tabnine subscriptions | Individual builder | Published Mar 15, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Oct 30, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Pricing and plan comparisonID od-01 | Product Documentation | openrouter.ai/ | OpenRouterOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| EnterpriseID od-02 | Product Documentation | openrouter.ai/ | OpenRouterOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Provider routingID od-03 | Product Documentation | openrouter.ai/ | OpenRouterOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Model fallbacksID od-04 | Product Documentation | openrouter.ai/ | OpenRouterOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Zero Data RetentionID od-05 | Product Documentation | openrouter.ai/ | OpenRouterOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| GuardrailsID od-06 | Product Documentation | openrouter.ai/ | OpenRouterOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| LogsID od-07 | Product Documentation | openrouter.ai/ | OpenRouterOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| LimitsID od-08 | Product Documentation | openrouter.ai/ | OpenRouterOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
