Openrouter is going to cost you a lot more than the 5% fee, unless you lock the provider.
replyTry DS through their own API if that's feasible, AFAIK they're much cheaper than through OS due to cache hit rates.
replyIs there actually a difference in cache rates between OR and official API? I have a preset set up on OR so that I only send traffic to deepseek. The preset is important otherwise you will send traffic to different providers but if you weren't doing this already then what can I say, water is wet, of course cache rates will be awful. I get about 70% cache hit rate with the preset which is appropriate for what I'm doing. I haven't used the official API though.
replyZenmux say the cache hit rate is 98% for the deepseek flash API. I don't know why, but performance is definitely worse using openrouter.
replyThey just raised their prices sadly.
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