Yup, we are in the process of getting access to US hosted Chinese models. I've been petitioning Google and our rep, we will see but I suspect they will cave eventually. Gemini sucks and if they don't sell what their customers want, we go shopping around.
OpenRouter charges an extra 5.5%, Fireworks does not, Google is separate, but I doubt it will take 18 months. They are already aware they are losing business.
OpenRouter is the wrong abstraction for enterprise, we only need one model provider, not everyone in the world. Nor do we want to have to worry about failover going to providers we don't want.
