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OpenRouter

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So you want to use OpenRouter?

Simon Willison highlights OpenRouter pitfalls: provider routing makes the same model endpoint behave inconsistently across backends.

Simon Willison discusses problems, raised by Mohamed Moustafa, with relying on OpenRouter's single API endpoint that automatically routes to the most cost-effective provider. Different backend providers run different serving software with different optimizations and settings, so requests to the same endpoint can behave in different ways. Some providers lack vision capability for vision models, and the reasoning effort option can be processed differently across providers.

Simon WillisonSep 11, 22:49 UTC · 4d agoAI tools & infra

llm 0.34

Version 0.34 of Simon Willison's llm CLI adds response-duration metrics to log output, plus bug fixes and faster log querying.

The open-source llm command-line tool for interacting with large language models released version 0.34. The headline change adds response duration in milliseconds and human-readable form to llm logs --usage Markdown output, plus a new duration_ms field in llm logs --short. The release includes several contributed bug fixes and a significant performance improvement to llm logs, alongside the related llm-openrouter 0.7.1 release.

Simon WillisonSep 2, 19:23 UTC · 13d agoAI tools & infra

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