12 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenRouter first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Yes, I'm currently using OpenRouter. It's good for quickly switching around and trying different models”
endorse · personal · tomburgs · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OpenRouter has a great product and there is so much possiblity in this space.”
endorse · personal · thibsrn · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“openrouter always seems to end up being way more expensive for the flagship models.”
mixed · personal · grep_name · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have several apps hooked to openrouter for workload processing... It works great.”
endorse · production · 1.5 yr · schmookeeg · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also make use of free models from OpenRouter for simple CI/CD automated stuff”
neutral · personal · alexfortin · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For this benchmark i 've been using OpenRouter.”
neutral · personal · guregodevo · 2026-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Occasionally ran the same prompt through openrouter to check if it's "my context" or "the model"”
neutral · personal · berkes · 2026-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Using it now via API (3.1 Pro on Open Router) in a HITL setup (Cline in VSCode).”
neutral · personal · rglover · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Deepseek Flash 1017 and it does whole projects and asks for $0.10 on US provider with ZDR on Openrouter.”
neutral · personal · syntaxing · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with the OpenRouter harness for benchmark we are actually #4 in accuracy out of about 30+ providers.”
neutral · production · erans · 2026-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yeah had mcp in prod since late 2025. Runs 100s of tools via openrouter.”
neutral · production · 1 yr · maxrev17 · 2026-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“$390 revenue to Anthropic and OpenRouter.”
neutral · production · GalDayan · 2026-03-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?