
OpenRouter vs Direct API: What You're Trading and Why It's Worth It
OpenRouter adds a 5.5% fee on top of direct Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google API pricing. Here's what you get for it, and when you're better off without it.
Side-by-side comparisons of developer tools, frameworks, and platforms.

OpenRouter adds a 5.5% fee on top of direct Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google API pricing. Here's what you get for it, and when you're better off without it.

A practical comparison of SQLite and Postgres for building durable workflow engines, with working code examples for both checkpoint patterns.

A hands-on comparison of Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor — covering interface, agentic autonomy, pricing, and which to choose in 2026.

A skeptical, reproducible test of Headroom, the context-compression wrapper for AI coding agents. We ran Codex 12 times across two task sizes to see if it really cuts tokens.