{
  "id": 3743401,
  "title": "I wanted a smaller OpenRouter catalog for Chinese models, so I built one",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/i-wanted-a-smaller-openrouter-catalog-for-chinese-models-so-i-built",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-27T13:05:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/vancine-fan/i-wanted-a-smaller-openrouter-catalog-for-chinese-models-so-i-built-one-24op"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}