Sure but you still pay only OpenRouter :)

Interestingly, OpenRouter will serve inference at cost for a lot of models.

No? They charge 5.5% (I believe) on every top-up. Which is the equivalent of charging you 5.5% on every request.

Ah, so that's where the profit comes from. Very payment-processor like move, makes sense that Stripe picked them up.

LLM pattern [0] will probably eventually emerge as the best way to fight those biases. This way everyone benefits from token burn!

[0](https://github.com/karpathy/llm-council)