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- Starting price Free
- Free trial Available
- Best for Freelancers, Startups, SMEs
What is OpenRouter?
OpenRouter is a unified interface for large language models that gives developers and teams one API to access hundreds of models from 70+ providers. Built for AI app builders, startups, and enterprises, it simplifies model experimentation, routing, and deployment by letting you use an OpenAI-compatible SDK while switching between providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and more. Its biggest value is flexibility: you can optimize for price, speed, uptime, or policy requirements without rewriting your integration for every vendor. OpenRouter also supports distributed routing with fallback options, helping maintain higher availability when a provider is slow or unavailable. With custom data policies, transparent usage-based pricing, and no subscription requirement, it is especially useful for teams that want to control costs and reduce operational overhead while building production-grade AI products, agents, and internal tools.
Key Features of OpenRouter
OpenRouter lists 6 documented features, including Unified LLM API, Model Routing & Reliability and Pricing & Performance Optimization. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.
- Unified LLM API
- Model Routing & Reliability
- Pricing & Performance Optimization
- Governance & Data Controls
- Model Marketplace
- Developer Tools
OpenRouter Pricing
OpenRouter publishes 3 plans, starting at $0 on the Free Plan tier. Figures are taken from the vendor's own pricing page.
Free Plan
Free
What’s Included:
- No platform fees
- 25+ free models
- 4 free providers
- Chat and API access
- Activity logs & export
- Auto-routing & preferred vendor selections
- Budgets & spend controls
- Prompt caching
- Management API key
- Rate limit: 50 requests/day, 20 RPM
- Token pricing: free models only
- Support: Community support only
Pay-As-You-Go
Credits-based
What’s Included:
- 5.5% platform fee on credit purchases
- 300+ models
- 60+ providers
- Chat and API access
- Activity logs & export
- Auto-routing & preferred vendor selections
- Budgets & spend controls
- Prompt caching
- Management API key
- BYOK: 1M free requests/month, 5% fee after
- No platform-level rate limits on paid models
- 1,000 request limit on free models (20 RPM)
- Regional routing available
- Payment: credit/debit cards, crypto, bank transfers
Enterprise Plan
Custom Pricing
What’s Included:
- Bulk discounts on platform fees
- 300+ models
- 60+ providers
- Chat and API access
- Activity logs & export
- Auto-routing & preferred vendor selections
- Budgets & spend controls
- Prompt caching
- Management API key
- Admin controls
- Data policy-based routing
- Managed policy enforcement
- Provider data explorer
- SSO/SAML
- Contractual SLAs
OpenRouter Specifications
OpenRouter is available on web app, Windows and macOS and has macOS apps. It offers an API, has a free trial and has a free plan.
- Deployment
- Cloud Based
- Hybrid
- Billing cycle
- Transaction
- Desktop
- Web App
- Windows
- macOS
- Mobile
- macOS
- Languages
- English
- Built for
- Freelancers
- Startups
- SMEs
- Agencies
- Enterprises
- Support
- Training
- Integrations
- OpenAI SDK compatibility, API access, SDK, provider/model routing, and app integrations
- Public API
- Yes
- Free trial
- Yes
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs in browser
- Yes
- Customisable
- Yes
- Website
- openrouter.ai
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