OpenRouter
Single API that routes requests to models from many providers and bills them through one account.
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Three published tiers: Free (25+ free models, 4 free providers, 50 requests a day, no platform fee); Pay-as-you-go (500+ models, 80+ providers, 5.5% platform fee); Enterprise (fee discounts, invoicing, volume commitments). BYOK carve-outs: $25,000/month of list-price inference fee-free then 5% on Pay-as-you-go, $200,000/month then 5% on Enterprise.
What it does
- Model inference
- Text generation
How it compares
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Amazon Bedrock
Given that AWS has already launched a native intelligent prompt routing feature that appears competitive with OpenRouter's, hyperscalers act as both supply-side partners on OpenRouter and potential competitors in model routing.
Research report · 19 Sep 2026
Sources
- Pricing
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Free models alongside pay-as-you-go per-token routing and a contact-sales tier.
- Sold within
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The pricing page lists a "Free" plan ("Get started for free", "25+ free models", "50 requests/day") and self-serve "Pay-as-you-go", with platform fees of "5.5%" and "8%" and payment by "Credit card, crypto & more"; Enterprise is "Contact sales".
- Deployment
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Inferred 2026-09-08, not read off a page: every already-decided product of type 'model-api' in this catalogue includes "saas" in its deployment list, zero exceptions, per item 198's measured cross-tab. May be incomplete if this product also offers a self-hosted or private-cloud option; not wrong either way.
- Interfaces
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Official documentation · 29 Sep 2026
Page states: send 'POST https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions' with an OpenRouter API key and a model such as openai/gpt-4o.
Also from OpenRouter
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Ori Developer tool
OpenRouter's suite of agentic developer tools for using any hosted model "right where you are": Ori Harness (CLI) and Ori Code (terminal coding agent) are GA; Ori Eval finds the best model for a task; Ori Intern (Slack) is in private testing and Ori Desktop (Mac) is waitlisted.
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