[echelon]

Cynical take: they could look at everyone and give a discount for optics.

I'd feel a lot better if "OpenRouter" were open source.

[scirob]

litellm is basically open source version https://www.litellm.ai although the openrouter being a hosted service is kinda the point. Unless the whole industry decides to this over e2ee you cant get any guarantees about an intermediary aggregator

[stingraycharles]

Nobody is forcing you to use it. It’s a service for convenience: you just pay one provider instead of having to create a bazillion accounts.

If you don’t like any middle men, just go to one of the providers directly.