Relace Served 4.9% of All OpenRouter Tokens Last Week via HFT-Style Pricing Algorithm
stuffyokodraws · x · 2026-10-01
Relace served 7.2T of the 146T tokens that passed through OpenRouter last week (4.9%). The company uses a pricing algorithm that maximizes token share across 9 model deployments, each optimized for throughput — inference on the open market has become a form of high-frequency trading.
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