Possibly OAI? If you have OAI tokens you are a captive audience. If you have OpenRouter you are bidding on a free market.
replyOpenRouter attributes this promotion to OpenAI https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2089416739398254662
Why though, to AB test/see the impact of a price cut on a platform with multiple competitors?
replyIs this captive audience not going to switch providers for a 50% discount? Especially when the effort is simply swapping one URL for another?
replyOpenRouter is likely just leveraging Codex subscriptions.
replyWouldn’t that be against TOS?
replyIt might be through a level of indirection via an intermediate provider, offloading the TOS issue to the intermediate provider who couldn't care less.
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