openrouter provider call

[davidgarix]

What would you like to be added?

When we use "qwen" it should allow user to call specific provider for specific model via open-router API - something like below

#sample .zshrc file looks like this once we enable this feature

#OpenRouter API
export OPENAI_API_KEY="xxxxxx"
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="xxxx"

Qwen3coder () {
OPENAI_MODEL="qwen/qwen3-coder"
OPENROUTER_PROVIDER_ORDER="DeepInfra,Fireworks"
qwen "$@"
}

Why is this needed?

this feature give good control over cost control instead of randomly calling providers using open-router API

for example - in the attache image you can see "grok-3-mini" model might call "XAI" or "XAI-FAST" - we are not sure when we end up in "XAI-FAST"; which typically increase the cost compare to "XAI".. thats the reason we need provider parameter in place like model parameter in our .zshrc or .env file .

Additional context

No response

[sergiotapia]

10x price difference for same token count. Would be great to be able to specify a whitelist of providers for a specific openrouter model.

[davidgarix]

10x price difference for same token count. Would be great to be able to specify a whitelist of providers for a specific openrouter model.

Yup.. we dont want to loose money again.. thats the reason we need to prioritize this feature. I hope all developers support this

[tne-ops]

You can do this with a shell script. I can share for you, also have you gotten this to work properly with qwen/qwen3-coder on openrouter, I keep getting an API error and the API key is valid.

I get

[API Error: OpenAI API error: Connection error.]

Note that a curl of this works...

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "qwen/qwen3-coder:free",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "What is the meaning of life?"
    }
  ]
}'

[mrgoonie]

You can do this with a shell script. I can share for you, also have you gotten this to work properly with qwen/qwen3-coder on openrouter, I keep getting an API error and the API key is valid.

I get

[API Error: OpenAI API error: Connection error.]

Note that a curl of this works...

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "qwen/qwen3-coder:free",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "What is the meaning of life?"
    }
  ]
}'

this works for me:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-or-v1-..."
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
export OPENAI_MODEL="qwen/qwen3-coder"

@davidgarix you can use the default provider sort in OpenRouter's settings for temporary

[davidgarix]

You can do this with a shell script. I can share for you, also have you gotten this to work properly with qwen/qwen3-coder on openrouter, I keep getting an API error and the API key is valid.
I get

[API Error: OpenAI API error: Connection error.]

Note that a curl of this works...

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "qwen/qwen3-coder:free",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "What is the meaning of life?"
    }
  ]
}'

this works for me:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-or-v1-..."
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
export OPENAI_MODEL="qwen/qwen3-coder"
@davidgarix you can use the default provider sort in OpenRouter's settings for temporary

@mrgoonie : But still this wont give you full control as we expect. What if the price, throughput, latency change often? In that case, I expect specific provider name in the dropdown instead of those category specific dropdowns

[mrgoonie]

@davidgarix yes, i totally understand, that's why i said "for temporary" 😅

[tne-ops]

Yes it's so strange that it doesn't work for us. Has the exact same call. Sigh. Sent via Superhuman iOS ( ***@***.*** )

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[tne-ops]

The shell script. Note it depends on various ./lib helper functions but you get the idea https://github.com/richtong/bin/blob/main/qwen.sh Sent via Superhuman iOS ( ***@***.*** )

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On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 13:39, Rich Tong < ***@***.*** > wrote: Yes it's so strange that it doesn't work for us. Has the exact same call. Sigh. Sent via Superhuman iOS ( ***@***.*** ) On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 04:14, Goon < ***@***.*** > wrote: > *mrgoonie* left a comment (QwenLM/qwen-code#70) ( > #70 (comment) ) > > > @davidgarix ( https://github.com/davidgarix ) yes, i totally understand, > that's why i said "for temporary" 😅 > > > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub ( > #70 (comment) ) , > or unsubscribe ( > https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ATK6MOOPNVLVQGCT3E4M2TL3KNPJFAVCNFSM6AAAAACCGCXXGOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZTCMRRGYZTIMRYHE > ). > You are receiving this because you commented. Message ID: <QwenLM/qwen-code/issues/70/3121634289 > @ github. com> > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Architects and Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ***@***.*** > To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/tne.ai/d/msgid/dev/QwenLM/qwen-code/issues/70/3121634289%40github.com > ( > https://groups.google.com/a/tne.ai/d/msgid/dev/QwenLM/qwen-code/issues/70/3121634289%40github.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > ). > >

[tbenbrahim]

You can do this with a shell script. I can share for you, also have you gotten this to work properly with qwen/qwen3-coder on openrouter, I keep getting an API error and the API key is valid.
I get

[API Error: OpenAI API error: Connection error.]

Note that a curl of this works...

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "qwen/qwen3-coder:free",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "What is the meaning of life?"
    }
  ]
}'

this works for me:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-or-v1-..."
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
export OPENAI_MODEL="qwen/qwen3-coder"
@davidgarix you can use the default provider sort in OpenRouter's settings for temporary

I am sorry but no. For qwen 3 coder, I want to use Alibaba as the provider, even though it is more expensive, not some fp8 or fp4 provider with fairly poor results. I cannot see a way to do that from tools. I should be able to provide that as part of the OPENAPI_MODEL. This is a show stopper for me.