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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

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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.

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Come on at least write the Hackernews replies yourself.
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I did. Perhaps too much consumption of AI responses but articles and engagement are written by me - a human.
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That's exactly what a clanker would say. ^/s
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Only the opening sentence has an AI smell; the rest is definitely written by a fleshy meatbag
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