Historically acquisitions have never really been good for customers. Time for me to look for an OpenRouter alternative? At least they're also as easy to switch from as the model providers they proxy.
Historically acquisitions have never really been good for customers. Time for me to look for an OpenRouter alternative? At least they're also as easy to switch from as the model providers they proxy.
Why look for an alternative before you’re affected in any way?
One reason is to avoid a potential boiling frog scenario. I'm already in one with Android, but there are no viable - for me - alternatives (never touching Apple and mobile Linux isn't there yet) so I'm truly stuck. If there's a chance things may start changing at OpenRouter in such a way that months/years from now I'll look back and say "oh, how I wish I'd switched providers", I'd rather switch now just out of principle than be boiled.
Because its near zero cost now and I can do it calmly. Later, if they start squeezing me I don't want to be doing it under time pressure.
Because it's more likely that not that I will be affected.
There's basically no moat for OpenRouter, you can very easily switch them out to any other of these AI gateway companies.
Same fear. At least it wasn't Google
what are you looking for in an alternative?
my site is the only end to end encrypted one TrustedRouter.com
I'm working on a SaaS where you can switch between different OpenRouters on the fly. /s
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Stripes founders aren't suits but they're just as eager to make money. Their payments business is low margin and they're hungry for anything higher margin they can attach.
Yeah, Amazon didn’t let its low margin retail business prevent them from taking high margins in AWS. I’m not sure why it is assumed Stripe would stay low margin.
Well, they should be motivated by profit, especially if they can create an integrated solution, the convenience means everybody wins.
I don’t think you understand just how much money Stripe currently makes.
Doesn’t make them high margin, though.
Margin is not necessarily important. You would much rather be Amazon and take 50% of e-commerce at a small margin than be a SaaS with 80 +, but your market is inherently tinier.
Plus, the ads business built on top of retail is better than AWS and retail. AWS is great, but ads is higher margin, grows with retail, and is something you see across so many aggregators.
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