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[−]Implicated · 2026-08-29 Sat 23:52 UTC · link
I think you're arguing the same general point that the person you're responding to is. But you're saying he's not understanding - he understands that they report a cache hit % but you can't look at that public metric with any level of accuracy _because_ most people aren't pinning their providers and they _are_ getting juggled around which is bringing that metric down. That's not to say that specific providers might have issues or worse cache implementations - but it stands that if openrouter is juggling the requests back and forth by default then _that alone_ is breaking caches on those requests in huge numbers.
[−]dakolli · 2026-08-30 Sun 00:46 UTC · link
I know what they're saying. Why would openrouter calculate it thay way lol. They obviously dont. Think for a sec, they arent idiots.
[−]RussianCow · 2026-08-30 Sun 06:45 UTC · link
How else would you expect them to calculate it?
[−]dakolli · 2026-08-30 Sun 12:34 UTC · link
Do you really think they're docking points because cache invalidation due to provider switching? Seriously llms are frying ya'lls brain.
[−]RussianCow · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:48 UTC · link
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[−]irthomasthomas · 2026-08-30 Sun 09:05 UTC · link
Something is up. Deepseek cache hit rate on zenmux is 98%, but only 85% via openrouter.