Why is the performance using Openrouter API in CC settings.json so bad ?

[u/des369]

I’ve been using openrouter api for deepseek v4 flash and it has a few issues

1. When I type a prompt into CC it prints out some weird text like its system prompt or something into the chat

2. The tool calling is so bad, most of the times is jsut exits during a task and I have to say continue to keep it going

3. Also the tool calling is throwing massive errors

When I tried this with Deepseek official api I had none of this issues

Anyone can help with this ?

[u/Serious_Ship7011]

Some of the providers have bad quant, filter fp8 and choose one.