Token Quality Doesn't Correlate With Price, OpenRouter Data Shows

Analysis of OpenRouter data shows token quality has no correlation with price, with tool-call failure rates varying up to 15x across providers of the same model; dottxt has launched a weekly index to track these reliability differences.

2026-11-13 ~ 2026-11-13 · 2 related posts

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