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Art9681 20 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenRouter raises $113M Series B

Except the latency is significant and not suitable for clients with advanced agent features. The experience between using a frontier model via first party API and the best open weight models via OpenRouter is night and day. Can't get any real work done with it.

kristianp 20 days ago [–]

Good point. When I use it, the inference doesn't seem very fast compared to the big providers, esp Time to First (non-reasoning)Token.

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