> We work hard (and continue to invest) to make sure that providers serving sub-par inference can't game the system, and that our routing actively avoids them.

> We work hard (and continue to invest) to make sure that providers serving sub-par inference can't game the system, and that our routing actively avoids them. I'm glad to hear that y'all are doing this, as I was unaware that this was something OpenRouter does. I was surprised and disappointed that there are so many problematic providers that it seems like community best practice [1] is to ban somewhere in the realm of 5-6 providers. Would it be possible to provide some way to express an even stronger preference for high quality providers? E.g. "only route to first party for this model" or, "cost, but don't route to providers that more than x% worse than the first party". I'm sure something like that can be done via the API but I haven't found a UI way to do it - and having it in the UI would go a long way towards feeling like OpenRouter is looking out for me/helping solve the problem as opposed to leaving it to me to have to figure out. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mk4kt0/be_careful_in_selecting_providers_on_openrouter/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mk4kt0/be_care...