Thanks for the article. This is very relevant for anyone using openrouter and similar services seriously.

I feel there is still a lot of progress to be made before we can really trust LLM providers.

I noticed some strange behavior when I was setting it up to avoid providers that collect data, hence blocking default providers. Definitely it is worth filtering well tested providers, which is a feature OpenRouter provides.

Wish this had more insights on 'cost' - I found OpenRouter credits to burn up fast.

That looks absolutely horrifying. What are the alternatives ??

Yes

Good job