OpenRouter

“Chinese models now accounting for more than 30% of U.S. company token usage on OpenRouter in recent weeks.”

“One interesting idea I heard was this notion of almost a bounty model at the routing layer where the routing layer gets rewarded for choosing the right model, right? So if you choose the most efficient model or the best model for a certain task, that's when they collect a fee. And I thought that was kind of an interesting idea. Haven't necessarily seen it built out yet, but I thought it was a pretty interesting idea.”