exactly. all of these people complaining are using it wrong. you cant just expect a layer of abstraction to perfectly fix all the layers below it! plus, open router does a great job of handling a lot of the provider problems, but it literally cannot fix the output of the provider
exactly. you can specify a provider in your request to openrouter, or, better yet, use the :exacto endpoint to make open router automatically choose one that is good at tool calls.
Exactly! Composer 2/2.5 were amazing, cheap, and fast. Everyone else was Gaga about GPT 5.5 and such, while we were over here doing the work with less cost and more speed
Definitely agree. If it is small (eg. Qwen 3.8 28b or gpt-oss-120) then this might be amazing. If it is anywhere near Kimi K3 it would need to have some other differentiating factor than intelligence.