[koolba]

> i presume they wont let you “manage all your AI spend in one place” for free.

Of course they will. In return they get to control who they’re routing requests to. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns I to the LLM equivalent of “paying for order flow”.

[6thbit]

i got shivers thinking about a future ai dynamic pricing and automatic gateway choosing the cheapest provider available

[nubg]

shivers? as in it frightens you? i believe there is no way around tokens being prices like gasoline at the gas station - it changes every hour. Any other system means you are either over- or underspending.

[nhecker]

Openrouter already does this, unless I've misunderstood the premise.

[6thbit]

They can route between models but you pay the standard rate for whichever model is selected (plus 5% fee). Afaik all current model providers have fixed prices per tokens which don't vary depending on, say, demand or hardware availability.