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Cost / million tokens: Input $0.14 Output $0.28

But you can directly use it via the deepseek platform via an OpenAI-compatible API. Does OpenRouter offer any advantages?

One key, one base_url config, one billing account. If you like to mess around with many different models it's very convenient.

Yes, all of that. In addition, you can easily give the same prompt to several models at the same time to see how they respond.

Thanks, I was more curious whether they offer a better TOPS. Also there’s this concerning skepticism about OpenRouter:

For comparison, Claude 3.5 Sonnet (my favorite model for coding tasks) is: Input $3 Output $15.