Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 1mo
OpenRouter appears to be the main player in the field of providing access to multiple LLMs and while it appears to have some features I'm missing at nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h, its payment process is the best advertisement to not using them. First of all, I **have to** create an account and agree to the privacy policy and TOS. Ok, nobody reads those, right? Then my first query fails due to lack of funds. Sure, same with nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h. Let's add some funds, shall we? I heard they also accept "crypto". https://i.nostr.build/fBCSX9QzE6BskwXK.png I have to opt in to use crypto and it defaults to $10 but the due amount is $10.53? A 5.3% fee for using the hardest money possible? That's quite a surprise, given nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h has a 5% discount instead. So, whatever. I'm not going to stay long. I just want to try this out to know what I'm missing out on. After all, nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h costs a ton when using in the Cline plugin and while some claim it's just how Cline works, I wanted to see for myself if changing between the providers mid session would change the fees. But not with $10. How about $5? Well, no surprise, the fee just went up a bit but not much. 5.4% it is, so I'm getting my wallet ready ... but what is this??? https://i.nostr.build/chBuUJGZ5gd3zBao.png I want to make a payment, not connect a wallet. Apparently Bitcoin is not supported at least by this merchant. Clicking on "Open Billing Portal" on the other hand opens stripe and pre-fills my full name and email address. I can't edit neither. Guess I have to trust stripe to not have harvested my email before hitting that submit button. We will see in my spam folder. https://i.nostr.build/rOAxYt4flc3bpXsw.png Well, ... guess I'll leave it to the PPQ team to monitor their competition and trust them after having seen enough red flags elsewhere.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 3d
Let me know when it's better than nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h I'm currently using them every day and top up $20 at a time as I use it a lot via API but without API, topping up $2 is the default with LN. As I wouldn't want to connect a wallet, I find topping up very convenient. It's a backstop in case my bots run out of control. They appear to be ramping up their dev team and already provide a huge variety of LLMs and promise pretty good privacy, too. But as they are not open source, you could bait me with an open source stack ;)
