Just wanted to provide some (hopefully) helpful feedback from a potential customer that likely would have been, but bounced away due to ambiguity around pricing.
It's too hard to find out what markup y'all charge on top of the APIs. I understand it varies based on the model, but this page (which is what clicking on the "Pricing" link from the website takes you to) https://openrouter.ai/models is way too complicated. My immediate reaction is, "oh shit, this is made for huge enterprises, not for me" followed immediately by "this isn't going to be cheap, I'm not even going to bother." We're building out some AI features in our products so the timing is otherwise pretty good. We're not big fish, but do expect to spending between $3,000 and $5,000 per month once the features hit general availability, so we're not small either. If things go well of course, we'd love to 10x that in the next few years (but time will tell on that one of course).
> We pass through the pricing of the underlying providers; there is no markup on inference pricing (however we do charge a fee when purchasing credits).
Thanks that is helpful, although even that only says they charge a "fee" for purchasing credits and then links to this page[1], which isn't very straightforward
It's too hard to find out what markup y'all charge on top of the APIs. I understand it varies based on the model, but this page (which is what clicking on the "Pricing" link from the website takes you to) https://openrouter.ai/models is way too complicated. My immediate reaction is, "oh shit, this is made for huge enterprises, not for me" followed immediately by "this isn't going to be cheap, I'm not even going to bother." We're building out some AI features in our products so the timing is otherwise pretty good. We're not big fish, but do expect to spending between $3,000 and $5,000 per month once the features hit general availability, so we're not small either. If things go well of course, we'd love to 10x that in the next few years (but time will tell on that one of course).