A commenter recommends Fireworks AI as a 'great' provider for flagship open-source models, but notes that users may need to open a direct account and use BYOK on OpenRouter to avoid low rate limits.

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        "excerpt": "In OpenRouter settings you can configure Zero Data Retention where it’s contractually enforced they don’t keep your data. openrouter team is good about holding providers to high standard. Example, if you use OpenAI models, their servers have no training data guarantee but still hold your prompts for 30 days for “safety”. You can tell OpenRouter to use Azure instead where it has ZDR policy for Open",
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