SaaS have vendor lock-in, they have your data hostage and whar importantly your habits: other software never gonna be 100% the same.
Changing LLM backend on other hand takes 2 seconds.
And it's not all or nothing: you can just keep anthropic $20 plan for planning and do 99% code generation with chinese model.
You're focusing too much on the technical lock-in. They are providing:
- A stable and reliable platform you can build your prod on
- "Unlimited" capacity (something impossible today with the amount of GPUs available outside of labs)
- ZDR that is trusted by companies vs a random provider on OpenRouter
- Central governance
- E2E integration in their CLIs/Web clients/Desktop Client/etc...
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