Which raises the question - who is subsidizing this, and why?
Possibly OAI? If you have OAI tokens you are a captive audience. If you have OpenRouter you are bidding on a free market.
OpenRouter attributes this promotion to OpenAI https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2089416739398254662
Why though, to AB test/see the impact of a price cut on a platform with multiple competitors?
Is this captive audience not going to switch providers for a 50% discount? Especially when the effort is simply swapping one URL for another?
OpenRouter is likely just leveraging Codex subscriptions.
Wouldn’t that be against TOS?
It might be through a level of indirection via an intermediate provider, offloading the TOS issue to the intermediate provider who couldn't care less.
Possibly OAI? If you have OAI tokens you are a captive audience. If you have OpenRouter you are bidding on a free market.
OpenRouter attributes this promotion to OpenAI https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2089416739398254662
Why though, to AB test/see the impact of a price cut on a platform with multiple competitors?
Is this captive audience not going to switch providers for a 50% discount? Especially when the effort is simply swapping one URL for another?
OpenRouter is likely just leveraging Codex subscriptions.
Wouldn’t that be against TOS?
It might be through a level of indirection via an intermediate provider, offloading the TOS issue to the intermediate provider who couldn't care less.