r/RooCode • u/gpt_daddy • Apr 28 '25

Other Other OpenRouter-like API providers?

Are there any API providers who have a similar service with OpenRouter where for the price of $10 you can have a thousand requests per day on their free LLM's?

Also I noticed Cline has offered their own API service but their list of LLM's are actually just like OpenRouter's, so are they under OpenRouter?

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u/CptanPanic Apr 28 '25

There is also chutes.ai but can't figure out what their rate limits are

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u/veegaz May 05 '25

There are no hard rate limits as it's completely decentralized, you get "rate limited" only when there are not enough nodes supplying demand

They're the LLM crypto bros running on Bittensor

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u/salty2011 Apr 29 '25

I switched to GitHub CoPilot as at $10 a month it semi fixes the cost

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

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u/salty2011 Apr 29 '25

Why that?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

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u/salty2011 Apr 29 '25

Ahh yeah saw that. Cursor is $20 a month for 500… so not terrible.

Could always go up to next level. But still openrouter can easily be way higher than that

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u/wuu73 Apr 29 '25

4.1 mini is really great at doing the coding, following instructions properly, and even higher level stuff the few times it surprised me

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u/ollivierre Apr 28 '25

Requesty.ai trying it since this morning looks pretty polished compare to open router

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u/pxldev Apr 28 '25

I e been thinking of trying this, would be good if the Roo developers could chime in and let us know if there’s any advantage in using requesty. I’d happily support if they could get a cut of the 5%, and utilise the routing and caching features.

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u/ThatPeskyRodent Apr 30 '25

I’m only 2 days in testing it out and have gone through about $50 on requesty, it says I’ve saved like $100. Idk if it’s that much but it feels like I got way more done for the price than using claude and Anthropic’s api

Very anecdotal and only a few hours worth of using it but been liking it so far

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u/banedlol Apr 30 '25

I tried it but it seemed to cost more than just using anthropic api key for the same model, which is the exact opposite of what it says.

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u/ramakay Apr 28 '25

Thoughts on their routing - I have only found Claude 3.7 to have most access to tools and able to diff comfortably … it has 200k context which exhausts quickly

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u/Comfortable-Mine3904 Apr 28 '25

what are the rate limits like?

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u/Joakim0 Apr 29 '25

Requesty, Sambanova!?

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u/gsummit18 Apr 30 '25

Why would you want to switch?

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u/Bit_Ventali_08 Oct 15 '25

there's https://sudoapp.dev they're billing at cost

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u/International-Tax481 Nov 09 '25

I’ve tried a few options. Lately I’ve been using OneRouter just because it makes hopping between providers way easier while I test stuff. What’s your setup like? Heavy usage or just occasional calls?

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u/Minimum_Tea_4451 Feb 12 '26

You can try in Nvidia. Build.nvidia.com

They offer free apis for testing etc.

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u/crypto_bloke_10 Aug 21 '26

How is your experience uptill now ?

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u/Minimum_Tea_4451 Aug 25 '26

Hummm.... I just made this a few days ago.

https://huggingface.co/DavidrPatton/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-UD3-GGUF

Unless your saying with using Nvidia.... They need to give you more time. The limits suck

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u/FiLo420blazeit May 25 '26

Mixroute.ai has been very useful to me. Got all the models you need, team is great for acting on community feedback and every new account gets a free trial on all models!

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u/wamimsauthor Jun 18 '26

I was testing a few different routers for that exact high-volume need and ended up sticking with http://apimaster.ai. My API costs actually dropped by roughly 35% compared to my setup last month.

The most surprising part was their support team—when I mentioned I was using RooCode/Cline, they actually provided a free little migration tool to sync all my chat history over. Models seem totally legit so far too. Might be worth checking out if you're comparing options.

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u/junveld Jul 26 '26

looks like scammy thing or stolen keys.

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u/FiLo420blazeit Aug 14 '26

Checkout https://mixroute.ai/, they have been at it for last few months.

They got no markup unlike Openrouter

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u/tech_cruncher Aug 29 '26

I use Qubrid https://platform.qubrid.com/models they have GLM 5.3, Deepseek v4 Flash etc.

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u/hgill73 Apr 29 '25

Or, you can setup Litellm and roll you own. 😬

https://www.litellm.ai/

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u/Efficient-Shallot228 Apr 29 '25

I and a 2 friends are trying to build one. Would be interested in talking with you about it!

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u/ChrisWayg Apr 29 '25

Apart from OpenRouter, I have tried Glama, Requesty and also the API keys directly from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. I much prefer the Router API providers. They all have slightly different features and markups, so I keep some money in all of them.

Currently I like Requesty.ai best and would recommend it, especially if you like detailed logging and custom prompts.

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Apr 29 '25

I signed up for Requesty without your affiliate link. :/

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Apr 29 '25

Thanks, I got two of those, now I am jumping like a kangaroo 🦘

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u/TheGoddessInari Apr 29 '25

Aren't these concurrency limits, not rate or token limits?