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If you paid DeepSeek directly, that would have been 1 to 10 cents. OpenRouter has a huge overhead due to their cache logic, I'm surprised they keep business coming in the door for tasks other than system prompt - output pairs.

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I thought openrouter just routes you to the same provider for the rest of the session, so that you keep hitting the same cache. Is that not the case?

Also, I’d love to use Deepseek directly (or any of the Chinese providers, at that). Seems only fair to pay the lab that built the model. Unfortunately, any requests to Chinese servers is deeply frowned upon here (Belgium, EU). For personal use: sure. As a token intelligence strategy for the company: absolutely fucking not.

It does. They claim that anyway to just route you to the api endpoints for whatever you choose.

> I thought openrouter just routes you to the same provider for the rest of the session, so that you keep hitting the same cache. Is that not the case?

Not in my experience. I need to explicitly set my preferred provider(s) for each model, otherwise it bounces me around even within a single session.

I think it was actually less than that. I was doing something else too in another agent.

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