Paid · Pay per token, ~5% marginBootstrapped
OpenRouter
Unified LLM API.
- What is OpenRouter?
- OpenRouter is a service that puts language models from many vendors behind one OpenAI-compatible API and a single account.
- What does it do?
- Routes requests to models across providers through one endpoint and key, with fallbacks when a provider is down or rate-limited. Reports per-model cost, latency and throughput, and includes a chat interface for trying models.
- Who is it for?
- Developers and teams building on LLMs who want to swap or compare models without signing up with each vendor, and prototypers chasing newly released models.
- What are the alternatives to OpenRouter?
- Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini are chat products tied to their maker's own models. T3 Chat is a multi-model chat client; Perplexity is search-focused rather than an API layer.
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Pay per token, ~5% margin
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