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OpenRouter's OpenAI compatibility is compatibility at the lowest-common-denominator level; vendor-specific inference parameters, structured output constraints or caching mechanisms may not pass through the aggregation layer unchanged.
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OpenRouter: The Best Platform for Using Perplexity Decider Models
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