dawgs i am so lost

is anyone else sitting on the sidelines wondering wtf to do...

Chutes being super vague about the whole ordeal, so i don't really want to give them my money... but Openrouter as i understand it, also operates through Chutes anyway? super expensive in my currency so i want to make a good decision. I was using DeepSeek V3-0324 via Chutes until the paywall. But now it sounds like all the proxies are down???

Is it best to try the free messages on Openrouter and then decide? what is everyone doing? dude i am so lost