We Read 100 OpenClaw Issues About OpenRouter. Here's What We Built Instead.
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OpenRouter is the most popular LLM aggregator. It's also the source of the most frustration in OpenClaw's issue tracker. The Data We searched OpenClaw's GitHub issues for "openrouter" and read every result. 100 issues. Open and closed. Filed by users who ran into the same structural problems over and over. Category Issues Examples Broken fallback / failover ~20,,, Model ID mangling ~15,,, Authentication / 401 errors ~8,, Cost / billing opacity ~6,, Routing opacity ~5, Missing feature parity ~10,, Rate limit / key exhaustion ~4, Model catalog staleness ~5, These aren't edge cases.