I wanted a smaller OpenRouter catalog for Chinese models, so I built one
OpenRouter is useful. I still use it when I need broad model coverage. But for one part of my work, that broad catalog became friction. I mainly wanted the current flagship models from Qwen, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, and DeepSeek. I kept sorting through old versions, free routes, provider variants, and model IDs. So I built Vancine , a smaller OpenAI-compatible API focused on current Chinese models.…
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