Error: No 'choices' found in OpenRouter response

[distant crypt]

Error: No 'choices' found in OpenRouter response: {'error': {'message': 'Internal Server Error', 'code': 500},

hello, im running into this a lot with using Gemini and deepseek when testing for my project

error code 500 is undefined

also - side question. if I want to see the model's thinking, how can I get it to be stored somewhere with the response?

[lone berry]

Add "include_reasoning: true" to the body of the api request

[lone berry]

That means OpenRouter had an error. You weren't charged. You can try again

[distant crypt]

oh neat, so its on their end and there's nothing I can do to investigate?

[lone berry]

Not unless you have some super weird use case and its making OpenRouter unable to process your request

[distant crypt]

uhhh, Im using very long contexts (large .txt files)

[lone berry]

Does it happen often?

[distant crypt]

but easily below token limits

and also doesn't happen all the time for the same request

[distant crypt]

literally half the time

[lone berry]

OpenRouter might not be built to handle requests that large

[distant crypt]

hmm, I'd think so but its not really too consistent with it happening more with bigger files

its happening just as much with a 70k token file then with a 1.2m token file

[lone berry]

Interesting

I don't have a solution for you

[distant crypt]

no worries, cheers anyway

[leaden violet]

I can take a look tomorrow morning

500 errors mean the provider is having a problem, not openrouter

eternal is right tho, you aren’t being charged for those

[distant crypt]

any update on this error?

[distant crypt]

(there was no update)

[leaden violet]

Sorry @distant crypt I haven't specifically investigated, what model were you seeing this on? a 500 error is an upstream error, it's not an openrouter error. whatever provider you were using was having issues