diff --git a/apps/workers/inference.ts b/apps/workers/inference.ts
index 071f4742..c08b1bd1 100644
--- a/apps/workers/inference.ts
+++ b/apps/workers/inference.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Ollama } from "ollama";
 import OpenAI from "openai";
+import { ChatCompletion } from "openai/resources/chat/completions";
 
 import serverConfig from "@hoarder/shared/config";
 import logger from "@hoarder/shared/logger";
@@ -41,6 +42,24 @@ class OpenAIInferenceClient implements InferenceClient {
     });
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @param chatCompletion the chatCompletion object or the chatCompletion object as a string (e.g. when using OpenRouter in some occasions)
+   * @returns the messageContent extracted out of the chatCompletion object or out of the chatCompletion string
+   */
+  extractResponse(chatCompletion: ChatCompletion | string): string {
+    let response: ChatCompletion;
+    if (typeof chatCompletion === "string") {
+      response = JSON.parse(chatCompletion) as ChatCompletion;
+    } else {
+      response = chatCompletion;
+    }
+    const responseContent = response.choices[0].message.content;
+    if (!responseContent) {
+      throw new Error(`Got no message content from OpenAI`);
+    }
+    return responseContent;
+  }
+
   async inferFromText(prompt: string): Promise<InferenceResponse> {
     const chatCompletion = await this.openAI.chat.completions.create({
       messages: [{ role: "system", content: prompt }],
@@ -48,10 +67,7 @@ class OpenAIInferenceClient implements InferenceClient {
       response_format: { type: "json_object" },
     });
 
-    const response = chatCompletion.choices[0].message.content;
-    if (!response) {
-      throw new Error(`Got no message content from OpenAI`);
-    }
+    const response = this.extractResponse(chatCompletion);
     return { response, totalTokens: chatCompletion.usage?.total_tokens };
   }
 
@@ -81,10 +97,7 @@ class OpenAIInferenceClient implements InferenceClient {
       max_tokens: 2000,
     });
 
-    const response = chatCompletion.choices[0].message.content;
-    if (!response) {
-      throw new Error(`Got no message content from OpenAI`);
-    }
+    const response = this.extractResponse(chatCompletion);
     return { response, totalTokens: chatCompletion.usage?.total_tokens };
   }
 }