Developers Resist Costs
0.0%
A meaningful share of developers objects to higher blended inference costs and sees the new routing policy as favoring incumbents. This slows OpenRouter’s marketplace momentum and benefits rival routers or direct cloud relationships that keep price as the top optimization variable.
What it moves
- Technology−0.1%
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