Not sure cost saving is the priority.

I got solar installed by the local power company and while it's well done and was a great deal regarding the price, the inverter stats are locked behind a really terrible app. At least there isn't a subscription cost but I wouldn't be surprised if they add one someday.

Would gladly pay more for fully open and serviceable replacement.

The whole idea behind ECH is one IP hosts tons of sites (eg. CDN) so you have no idea which one it is.

Also reverse lookup has nothing to do with hosting own DNS resolver.

Ah, true. Well then, what makes GCP/AWS more money? DoD contracts or Claude resell fees? They could drop DoD though I guess I see how this will go...

(edit: I'm most likely wrong)

You got it backwards, can't use claude if you ARE doing business with DoD.

Presumably AWS/GCP don't care, its up to the end customer to comply. Not like GCP KYC asks if you work with DoD.

Agreed it's not really good signal (many sampling biases) but user count is not relevant, most money is from heavy API users. 900M users with free or cheap subscription are nothing compared to even 10k heavy API users.

On the other hand, big users don't use openrouter. At $work we have our own routing logic.