The main thing about Openrouter is also that they take 100% of the risk in case of overcharges from the models, you have an actual hard cap.
replyThe minus is that context caching is only moderately working at best, rendering all savings nearly useless.
Is there any risk? Don't the model providers also bill by the token?
replyThe accounting could be asynchronous, so you could overshoot your budget by a few requests before you're blocked.
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