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There's no difference between the two if you pin the provider to Deepseek on Openrouter.

If you don't want to mess about client side with pinning, set a guardrail on Openrouter that limits the available providers to only the official one.

Then why bother using OpenRouter and paying the extra fees?

Because you have like every model on the planet to choose from. So if a contender drops you switch.

Also if DS is down you can choose another provider.

I have credits at DS and OR directly. But I do see the value in OR.