Unfortunately you may never see the beach ball

Perform a dry run first, to be safe

Will provide feedback once I get the iTowel.

Then switch. The good news is its’s fairly easy.

Great advice, until all of the alternatives are driven from the market ala youtube, ala' ebay, etc etc

EBay there are alternatives (gumtree etc.).

YouTube there’s no real alternative because hosting unlimited amounts of video for free is a money pit that’s impossible to turn into a viable business.

If some big corporation wasn’t willing to subsidise it for some ulterior motive, it simply wouldn’t exist

What other routers exist that are good in your experience?

Eurorouter

Can't find anything by that name

Maybe he meant EUrouter? But it seems to be an entirely different thing: unified API for models vs a token marketplace

Apologies for the misspelling, but I do believe they are offering the same service albeit without many of the closed US models.

https://www.eurouter.ai/pricing

Cortecs.ai

Only EU providers, seemingly huge latency, >2x pricing is just in no way an alternative.

https://cortecs.ai/detailedServerlessView/deepseek-v4-flash-...

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731#provid...

> Only EU providers

It is though, if that is what you want

In the sense that asparagus is an alternative to bananas, if that's what you want.