A commenter recommends using DeepSeek's models directly from the source company, noting great pricing and quality compared to using them through third-party providers on OpenRouter.

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        "author": "locbuilds",
        "excerpt": "yeah, blocking Open Inference is a useful workaround. i'd put a low max output/reasoning cap on those requests while testing, so a bad backend can't run away with tokens before you notice.",
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        "excerpt": "The providers for the popular open source ones can be very hit or miss, and the ones that charge less especially so. I've pinned the providers who are generally consistent, but even then I have problems. This isn't as much of an OpenRouter thing, but a provider and model thing.",
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        "excerpt": "OpenInference is lately cheapest among providers, so I guess they're compensating it by making the output verbose.\n\n I usually pin StreamLake or the original provider for most.",
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        "author": "Beeschurger_xd",
        "excerpt": "Yeah I have had this as well. Probably some provider quantizing the model secretly so that it becomes retarded",
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        "excerpt": "YES\n\n I was coming here to post this exact thing. I banned them by putting them on my block list. Not sure what shenanigans they did to the GLM model. I took it personally and felt like I was being played.\n\n If anyone has their favorite providers with strong Zdr policies please post here.",
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        "excerpt": "I had to stop using Wafer for the same reason actually. Just pin the providers you want.",
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        "author": "queso184",
        "excerpt": "It's actually unusable, i was using deepseek through them and it was getting into terrible reasoning loops",
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    "post_text": "Hi all, I want to know whether anyone else has run into this, or whether it's just me.\n\nYesterday I was using GLM 5.3 Flash and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash through OpenRouter in Pi. After a few turns, both started vomiting a seemingly never ending list of unrelated words, until i stopped them. Most of the tokens were billed as reasoning.\n\nIt happened with two unrelated models, which seemed odd, so digging deeper i found that every request had gone to the same provider, Open Inference, which serves both models in fp4. Once I blocked Open Inference in my settings, the same model in the same session went straight back to normal (on Wafer and DekaLLM).\n\nI also noticed that, for GLM, it was also the most expensive provider by a long shot (and one of the slowest), which makes me question why i was routed to Open Inference in the first place (I have no particular routing config/setup).\n\nI don't know how Open Inference runs its deployments or exactly how OpenRouter decides where to route. It could just be a bad deployment or a bug, looking at the token volume (https://openrouter.ai/provider/open-inference) there's been a big drop after Sep 26th, so maybe it is something happening systematically.\n\nHas anyone experienced this? am I missing something obvious?\n\nbut also: shouldn't there be something on openrouter gauging provider output quality? this could have been very expensive, both for the...",
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