Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter | Hacker News

The post is about moving a $100 monthly Claude Code spend to Zed and OpenRouter.

OpenRouter charges a fee, but gives access to dozens of models through one API key.

It tracks the cost of each request and can compare the same request across models side by side.

Users can split usage with different API keys and set presets and routing rules.

It can route only to providers that do not log inputs; LiteLLM is another option for chat, coding, and self-agent tasks.