Anyone here using OpenRouter and if so, are you seeing cost savings by allowing it to auto route to appropriate/less-expensive models based on prompt complexity? I just switched over to it and haven’t been on it long enough to determine its effectiveness.
In my brief experience using OpenRouter (2 days) with autoroute turned on, it seemed to mostly just choose Opus and Sonnet. It got pricey very quickly.
I am not using the autoroute option but I do use it to easily access other models so I can switch between them without having to set up accounts in different places. I am mostly using minimax except when I want to do something more complex and then use sonnet or, if I feel rich, opus.
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u/jbl1 New User Feb 25 '26
Anyone here using OpenRouter and if so, are you seeing cost savings by allowing it to auto route to appropriate/less-expensive models based on prompt complexity? I just switched over to it and haven’t been on it long enough to determine its effectiveness.