When I create a BYOK/integration in OpenRouter with Chutes as the provider using a valid Chutes key, I am only able to access the free Chutes models offered by OpenRouter. I can access any paid Chutes model directly through Chutes using the same Chutes key . Why am I unable to access the paid Chutes models in OpenRouter with a BYOK integration?
#Unable to access paid Chutes Models with BYOK
zinc tusk
worldly jolt
When I create a BYOK/integration in OpenRouter with Chutes as the provider using...
What's the error that's returned?
amber pine
i need help too
candid jay
502 bad gateway I believe
worldly jolt
502 bad gateway I believe
That's unrelated. Cloudflare went down just now, so wait until it comes back up
candid jay
My bad ty
zinc tusk
@worldly jolt On OpenRouter, my intention is to not spend my $10 top off, so I limit my credits to 0. Which works, because when I use my OpenRouter BYOK for Chutes on a free Chutes model, I can see that I am deducted from my 200 free daily messages on Chutes.
When I switch to a paid Chutes model, the error I get using my BYOK is "Error generating, error: Error: This request requires more credits, or fewer max_tokens. You requested X tokens but can only afford 0..."
This says to me that OR is not using my Chutes key in the BYOK for paid Chutes models, but rather is attempting to deduct from my OpenRouter account (which I disabled to prevent this from happening).
This can be tested easily with deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b:free and deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b, when ignoring the NovitaAI provider.