alt Hacker NewsOut of interest, why OpenRouter over a free option like Cloudflare’s AI gateway or another paid option like Vercel’s — any specific benefit to OpenRouter you’ve found, or just first you used that’s good enough?
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I'll be honest, I hadn't clocked that Cloudflare and Vercel were offering equivalent products.
Looks like Vercel even have their own leaderboard: https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/leaderboards/models
Surprising that they have Opus 4.8 and 4.6 listed on the leaderboard but not Opus 4.7.
I didn't know about these options either. I am using Cline: Cloudflare isn't an option but Vercel is. My spending is pretty low overall now that I'm using local models much more but good to know that there are cheaper alternatives to try or at least suggest to others.
Other features I've just noticed: - configurable prompt injection protection using OWASP regex (https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/LLM_Prompt_In...) - configurable PIM protection for outbound prompts - input/output logging - "JSON healing" to auto-correct minor hallucinations
Lots of other stuff too. The business model seems pretty simple and the value-add features don't look particularly expensive or difficult to copy.
Separation, I don't want to have my domains blocked the day AI bill go Brrr
> a free option like Cloudflare’s AI gateway
Free? They take the same 5% fee as OpenRouter does.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/features/unifie...