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Comment by napoleond

> It doesn't know if 1 person made all those requests, or N.

FWIW this is highly unlikely to be true.

It's true that the upstream provider won't know it's _you_ per se, but most LLM providers strongly encourage proxies like OpenRouter to distinguish between downstream clients for security and performance reasons.

For example:

- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/safety-best-pr...

- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/prompt-caching...

parent napoleond 6 months ago

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