No, this is OpenAI doing the discount, not Openrouter by themselves. OpenAI is crushing it with their 5.6 models, and they probably decided there was no better time to grab as much market share as possible.
replyI don’t understand this at all. They have never been profitable yet. How is this helping them? When it be more likely the case that not enough, people are using it as the prices they established already? So now they have to lower the prices?
replyYou lower prices for marketshare. Fable became a mythological model to leadership because they were the first story of ai escaping and hacking another company. The it's so dangerous the public can't use it narrative is sticky so OpenAI is showing off its model so as many eyeballs as possible. We're in the samples in the supermarket phase.
replyThey're prepping to IPO. They want top level metrics like usage they can use to pump investors, not nonsense like profitability.
replyOpenRouter offers 1% discount to save your conversations, explicitly opt-in.
replyAnything else they don't save it. Even if they tell you the model provider saves your data for training.