Never had any issues using it for personal small scale development. I think the premise of OpenRouter as a magical way to fall back on error or select providers

Never had any issues using it for personal small scale development. I think the premise of OpenRouter as a magical way to fall back on error or select providers based on price/tok-per-sec/uptime isn’t delivered upon. But it’s an excellent way to simplify the experience of hopping between model providers with a single unified billing system. I mostly only use first party model hosts. Theoretically there are alternatives with higher throughput or lower prices, but it’s simplest to not worry about that optimization.