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Re:Anthropic IPO by piva00 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:43AM (#50466961)
Working for a 10k+ corporate and we made it pretty easy to switch to any provider, people here can use Anthropic's, OpenAI's, and our own self-hosted open weight models very easily. It's one drop-down or `/` command away to switch between them.

I think other companies are probably doing the same, the moat of a AWS/GCP/Azure is much deeper with how contrived it is to migrate between them even if you abstract as much as possible with something like Kubernetes.

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Re:Anthropic IPO by plaidfuji on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:50AM (#50467065)
Interesting, I don’t think that’s incredibly common but that’s certainly not good news for them. And also not great for OpenRouter.
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Re:Anthropic IPO by fg137 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:15AM (#50467545)
Openrouter is really meant for individual developers and startups.
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Re:Anthropic IPO by skinfaxi on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:57AM (#50469501)
Openrouter was acquired by stripe, I'm sure they're not worried.
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Re:Anthropic IPO by fartfeatures on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:08AM (#50469671)
Vendor lock in is quite well understood, most larger companies (the one's I have worked with anyway) are aware of the risk and take steps to actively avoid it. Once bitten, twice shy.
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