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I'd guess because it costs them nothing and it gives you a smoother transition back towards paying for their products.

From my view, as soon as they do that, they send people out the door to use Opencode instead - and once many people have a taste of trying every model via Openrouter, it's eye opening as to the possibilities.

Of course - Anthropic and OpenAI have an advantage in the amount they can subsidize the usage, but I think those days are waning.

Well when a huge part of potential revenue is all in on Bedrock... you need the harness to be able to talk to Bedrock. And Vertex. And all the other places these models are hosted. And allow for proxy because many businesses do not all direct internet access... all valid business reasons.

It honestly should be easier, its a by product of everyone using the same API standard.

Codex and Claude require editing a .json file, but most other harnesses have direct connections via a /provider or /login command.