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.
Interesting, I don’t think that’s incredibly common but that’s certainly not good news for them. And also not great for OpenRouter.
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.
Openrouter is really meant for individual developers and startups.
Openrouter was acquired by stripe, I'm sure they're not worried.