OpenRouter
one endpoint in front of the whole market, at genuinely no markup — which makes the routing itself the product.
charges nothing to sit in the middle, which is rare enough to be worth using — you just can't look up 'the openrouter price' for anything, because there isn't one.
openrouter's own faq states it passes through the underlying provider's pricing without markup on standard inference. for an aggregator that is a genuinely good deal, and it removes the usual objection — our ai image models ranking documents aggregators charging 12-25% over going direct.
what you buy is optionality. one openai-compatible endpoint reaches most of the vendors ranked above, so switching provider or model is configuration rather than engineering, and a free tier lets you try models at 50 requests a day, rising to 1,000 once you've bought $10 of credit.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- llm inference providers
- pricing
- the routed provider's price
- website
- openrouter.ai
charges nothing to sit in the middle, which is rare enough to be worth using — you just can't look up 'the openrouter price' for anything, because there isn't one.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.