This is by design, its the same reason inference providers on Openrouter will advertise super cheap pricing but cache TTLs of 2 min/ 70% hit rate.
Cache rules everything around me.
Hey, letting you know I'm stealing your quote about CREAM. It'so absurd.
This is why I now avoid OpenRouter and just buy direct from DeepSeek.
$100 on DeepSeek has lasted over a week, whereas on OpenRouter it lasted two days